Each year, the Department of Geography features outstanding undergraduate research projects in the Geography Undergraduate Research Symposium. We look forward to welcoming our student participants as well as audience members from our department community!
Friday, June 5, 2026
Live Gallery in Smith Hall 409: 1:00-1:50 PM
This session is a showcase of selected print and digital zines and other material objects created by students. The informal gallery space offers an exciting opportunity to visit with the artists!
- Anna Frank: "Núsux Kinship Circle-- Salmon"
- Lucy Markham: "For the love of cabbage"
- Serena Mlodinoff: "What Really Caused the Eagle Creek Wildfire"
- Cassia Vinci: "Renewable Energy in Italy, a Wiki project"
- Jared Arche: "Climate Change in Guatemala"
- Haven Serpa: "Undam the Klamath: Life After Dam Removal"
- Nour Khalifa: "Let's Dig Up Cassava: Roots, Routes, and Global Movement"
- Zeke Morrison: "Passover: The Table as Text"
- Paisley Wu, Lindsay Nguyen: "Mapping Affordable, Safe, and Transit-Accessible Housing to UW"
- Rio Sakai: "Energy in Japan"
Session I in Smith Hall 404: 2:00-2:50 PM
This session includes live "lightning" presentations from student speakers highlighting their research projects. Stay for Q&A with the presenters after the talks!
- Jasper Crossley, Ruiming Ren: "Utility Mapping of UW Bothell's Irrigation Network"
- Weixuan Teng: "Beyond the Slogan-Testing 15 minute neighborhoods in Seattle"
- Zhiting Cai: "Mapping Himalaya: Contest over North Eastern Frontier"
Session II in Smith Hall 404: 3:00-3:50 PM
This session includes live "lightning" presentations from student speakers highlighting their research projects. Stay for Q&A with the presenters after the talks!
- Lucy Zern: "Exploring the social fabric for street sex workers amidst a spatial exclusion zone in Seattle, WA"
- Allison McClaughry: "Pishno Pi̱yakni (Our Land): Environmental Justice, Colonialism, and Indigenous Land Sovereignty of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma"
Online Symposium Gallery: Available All Day
Visit the Symposium Gallery all day long for creative projects, recorded presentations and digital maps!