Program Innovation

Humanistic GIS Lab Leverage GIS with Humanism
Humanistic GIS Lab Brings Together Students and Faculty for Innovative Research Opportunities
(April 3, 2023)
Portrait Photograph of Yasmin Ahmed in Profile
From Student Activist to Intersectional Labor Organizer: Meet Yasmin Ahmed
(September 7, 2022)
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Announcing Our 2022 Halmo Geography Scholars!
(March 25, 2022)
Portrait Photograph of Bill Beyers
Department of Geography marks the passing of our long-time faculty colleague and former chair, William "Bill" Beyers
(February 15, 2022)
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)
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)
Forest Coverage Change in Bach Ma National Park
GIS Workshop Students Prepare for "Real Life" in Collaboration with Employers like MEDRIX
(August 10, 2020)
Geography Graduate Student Soohyung Hur presenting a PowerPoint presentation.
"Taking Care" Conference Features Interdisciplinary Scholarship Touched by Care Theory and Ethics
(July 26, 2019)
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Geography Ph.D. Candidate Julian Barr Writes Blog Post about "Creative Pedagogies"
(March 26, 2019)
Lee Fiorio and Connor Gilroy
Social Media Data as Research Tool
(March 18, 2019)
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Geography Graduate Student Lee Fiorio Featured in Perspectives!
(March 18, 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)
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)
Union Slough, on the University of Washington campus, is the outlet of Ravenna Creek.
Bringing a Critical Lens to Restoration Ecology
(November 17, 2018)
Professor Kim England.
Congratulations to Professor Kim England, Named As the New Harry Bridges Endowed Chair in Labor Studies
(November 1, 2018)
Students at Mitre’s Monument in La Isla – Recoleta
Exploring Neoliberalism and Urban Space Through Study Abroad in Buenos Aires
(October 30, 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)
Computer screen with a window explaining the hackathon, another window with computer code, and a map with streets.
Geographers to host mapping hackathon
(April 3, 2018)
Alex Carl's Field Map of MS in WA State
GEOG 381 Class Fuses Mapping and Health Studies
(May 31, 2017)
Jason Moore
Jason W. Moore — The Rise and Fall of Cheap Nature: A Short History
(January 12, 2016)
Global Markets & Personal Impacts Course Now Offered on EdX
(June 6, 2015)
Lake Union Lab & UW Cities: Replacing the paper with an online exhibit.
(November 6, 2014)
Revisiting Critical GIS' workshop was a success!
(October 21, 2014)
Globalization and You MOOC
(June 25, 2014)
UW opens new online BA featuring four geography courses
(April 22, 2014)
Graduate Students Participate in Dissertation Proposal Workshop
(March 5, 2014)
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Simpson Center Funds New Crossdisciplinary Research Cluster, The Postcolonial Animal
(February 12, 2014)
Online Innovation: UW's new degree in integrated social sciences
(September 5, 2013)