Community Impact

Celebrating Pride Month
May 31, 2022
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Announcing Our 2022 Halmo Geography Scholars!
March 25, 2022
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Americans Rediscover Labor Unions
March 22, 2022
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What Is Emotional Labor and Why Is It Important?
March 4, 2022
Washington University Students Posing
New Huskies 2022 Arts and Sciences Events
March 1, 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
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Non-profit sponsors study on how the pandemic impacted arts and culture in Puget Sound
January 28, 2022
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Legislature considers constraints on Amazon’s ‘rank-and-yank’ worker ratings
January 18, 2022
Olivia Orosco on campus. “They were really wanting to make sure that something came of this research,” Olivia Orosco says of the caregivers she interviewed. “So that’s the pressure on me now. Something has to come of it.” Photo by Corinne Thrash.
COVID Challenges for Caregivers
December 16, 2021
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