Community Impact

Collage of work by Arts & Sciences faculty, students and alumni related to Hispanic Heritage Month
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month
(September 8, 2021)
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Dianne Harris named dean of UW College of Arts & Sciences
(July 15, 2021)
Unlearning Poverty
(July 8, 2021)
UW Geography Image designed by Megan Plunkett features a purple and gold map of the Salish Sea with black and white outline of Olympic Mountains in the foreground
Announcing the Winner of the Geography Sticker Design Competition!
(June 11, 2021)
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Unlearning Poverty
(May 19, 2021)
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From Seattle Central College to UW Geography with an Emphasis on Social Justice
(May 11, 2021)
Portrait of Gerald W. Halmo
Remembering UW Geography Alum Gerald Halmo
(March 30, 2021)
Elizabeth Theirl at Granite House
Announcing Our 2021 Halmo Geography Scholar: Elizabeth Theirl!
(March 22, 2021)
Nicole Lorenzo in Tita Bun Co Instagram Post
Inspired by Identity and Background, Tita Bun Collective "Creates Encouragement for Collaboration"
(March 16, 2021)
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A year with COVID-19: A chronology of how the UW adapted — and responded — to the pandemic
(March 8, 2021)
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A year with COVID-19: A chronology of how the UW adapted — and responded — to the pandemic
(March 4, 2021)
Feben and Senait at the Womens Center
From Making Connections to Administrative Assistant, Feben Alemu Inspires Others at the UW Women's Center
(February 25, 2021)
Help Us Create a New Sticker Design! Open to all members of the geography department, win a $50 gift card to the UW Bookstore!
What Does Geography Mean to You?
(February 24, 2021)
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Seattle Channel Video "Essential Stories of Frontline Workers"
(February 5, 2021)
Photo Austin Crane
Ph.D. Candidate Austin Crane Profiled in "American Songwriter"
(January 7, 2021)
GIS Day 2020 Poster
First Annual GIS Day at UW Is a Resounding, Remote Success!
(December 1, 2020)
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‘2020: The Course’ ponders the meaning of this unusual year
(October 30, 2020)
Image of computer screen with lines of code
UW awarded NIH grant for training in advanced data analytics for behavioral and social sciences
(October 20, 2020)
Sunrise at Mount Rainier National Park
UW Department of Geography and the Washington State Input-Output Model
(October 9, 2020)
Hammering Man
Labor Day 2020: A life-and-death fight for worker rights
(September 27, 2020)
Forest Coverage Change in Bach Ma National Park
GIS Workshop Students Prepare for "Real Life" in Collaboration with Employers like MEDRIX
(August 10, 2020)
The Labor of COVID
(July 9, 2020)
Raised fist, a universal symbol of solidarity and support. Artist Dave Savage.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee's Solidarity Statement
(June 23, 2020)
Tyson meat processing plant in Wallula
UW experts on challenges to worker safety in meat processing industry
(May 28, 2020)
You Thought You Were an Environmentalist Podcast.
You Thought You Were an Environmentalist: Geography Students Broadcast Environmental Justice Themes through Podcasting
(April 6, 2020)
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UW Honors students use art to disrupt the narrative on homelessness
(March 6, 2020)
Racquel West.
A Museum Mission
(November 3, 2019)
Geography Graduate Student Emma Gause, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams, and others sitting around a conference table.
First-Year Graduate Student Emma Gause Meets with U.S. Surgeon General
(August 13, 2019)
Geography Graduate Student Soohyung Hur presenting a PowerPoint presentation.
"Taking Care" Conference Features Interdisciplinary Scholarship Touched by Care Theory and Ethics
(July 26, 2019)
Yolanda Valencia.
Inside the Immigrant Experience
(June 17, 2019)
View of the Puget Sound and Discovery Park Lighthouse in Seattle
M.A. Student Amelia Schwartz Receives Award from UW Center for Human Rights for Work on Indigenous Water Rights
(May 16, 2019)
Student Lexi Nims Testifies in Front of State Legislature
Geography of Health & Healthcare Student Lexi Nims Testifies in the Washington State Legislature!
(April 24, 2019)
Two dancers performing in a government building.
Geography Major Sean Harding Reflects on Legislative Reporting Internship
(April 17, 2019)
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Geography Ph.D. Candidate Julian Barr Writes Blog Post about "Creative Pedagogies"
(March 26, 2019)
DAPL in geographical and historical context - Author: Isaac Rivera
First Year Ph.D. Student Isaac Rivera Receives Simpson Center's Digital Humanities Summer Fellowship!
(March 12, 2019)
Map of Evictions in Pierce County from 2017
Geography Graduate Student Alex Ramiller Collaborates with an Interdisciplinary Team Researching Evictions in Washington State
(March 5, 2019)
Melissa Espinoza
Alum Profile: From Yakima to Edinburgh, UW Geography Alum Melissa Espinoza Pursues a Career Researching Housing and Homelessness
(February 7, 2019)
Students in GEOG 478 in autumn quarter
Enacting Social Justice Principles in the Classroom... and in the City
(January 29, 2019)
Man hunched over with rope around his body indicating lower back pain.
Reflecting on Personal Experience of Pain, Professor Jonathan Mayer Finds Academic and Professional Opportunities to Affect Change
(January 11, 2019)
Houses built on a riverbank in Cambodia.
An Inventive Sewage Solution
(January 6, 2019)
Jody Nguyen Tran.
Coming Together Through Identity: Geography Major Jody Nguyen Tran and the Vietnamese Student Association at UW
(November 12, 2018)
Undergraduate geography major Tanner Heslop.
Undergraduate Career Spotlight: Tanner Heslop, Time Value Investments, Autumn 2018
(October 15, 2018)
Geography student Kevin Ho at Tolt-River Natural Area
Undergraduate Internship Spotlight: Kevin Ho, King County Parks, Summer-Autumn 2018
(October 10, 2018)
Five students looking at a laptop computer as they work on their community project for the South King County Food Coalition.
UW News Highlights Innovators in Geography Featuring Professor Sarah Elwood and GIS Workshop
(October 3, 2018)
Sweeps_Map
GIS Workshop Students Featured in Real Change!
(November 15, 2017)
People standing around a banner on the ground.
Professor Megan Ybarra Creates Documentary Short 
(September 29, 2017)
Kory combining physical and digital mapping
Geography Student Maps Youth Camp in North Bend
(September 27, 2017)
Arianna Muirow
Graduate Student Awarded Henry M. Jackson Leadership Fellowship
(August 14, 2017)
Group Members: Edwin Tablit, Gizelle Gando, Zach Washington, Lenstine Park
GIS Workshops Partner with Community Activists 
(May 24, 2017)
Beyond the Incarceration State Panelists
Geography hosts "Beyond the Incarceration State" panel
(March 30, 2017)