Graduate Students

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Winter 2025 Registration Change Guide
January 6, 2025
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Welcome to Our 2024 Graduate Students!
September 25, 2024
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2024 Awards, Honors and Achievements
June 10, 2024
Natalie Vaughan-Wynn Portrait
Catching Up with Ph.D. Candidate Natalie Vaughan-Wynn
May 10, 2024
Iain Hay
Congratulations to Ph.D. Alum Iain Hay, Recipient of the 2024 Laureat d’honneur from the International Geographical Union!
April 22, 2024
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Teddy Davenport, Ph.C., receives Susan Hanson Dissertation Proposal Award from Feminist Geography Specialty Group
April 10, 2024
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Spring 2024 Registration Change Guide
March 25, 2024
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Your Steps to a Great Commencement Day 2024
March 22, 2024
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Winter 2024 Registration Changes
January 3, 2024
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Welcome to Our 2023 Graduate Students!
December 20, 2023
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Statement of Support from the Department of Geography Faculty
November 14, 2023
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Meet Isaac Rivera, One of the 2023 College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Medalists
July 13, 2023
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 Geog Alum Stanley Toops
Remembering Geography Ph.D. Alum Stanley Toops
February 1, 2023
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Ph.D. Candidate Julian Barr Featured in Going Public Podcast Episode 6:"Politics of Memory"
January 4, 2023
From left: Liz Peng, Madalena Monnier-Reyna, Anna Fernandez, Chase Puentes, joined by Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Student Chi-Ying Huang
Welcome to Our 2022 Graduate Students!
December 15, 2022
Gray Wolf
Q&A with Geography Ph.D. Alum Rob Anderson: Managing Washington’s gray wolf population – through fear
November 21, 2022
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Yuying Xie Receives the Frank Jenkins Jr. Fellowship in Labor Studies
November 18, 2022
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From Student Activist to Intersectional Labor Organizer: Meet Yasmin Ahmed
September 7, 2022
This graph shows the weekly visitation patterns of restaurants with a Black-owned label (red line) versus those without the label (blue lines) in 20 major U.S. cities in 2020.
Black-owned restaurants disproportionately impacted during pandemic
August 29, 2022
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SEAC community mourns loss of Joe Hannah
July 7, 2022
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2022 Awards, Honors and Achievements
June 15, 2022
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Congratulations to our 2022 AAG Award Winners!
March 14, 2022
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What Is Emotional Labor and Why Is It Important?
March 4, 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
Olivia Orosco outside next to a bush
Geography’s Howard Martin Award Recipients
December 14, 2021
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Welcome to our 2021 Graduate Students!
November 9, 2021
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2021 Awards, Honors and Achievements
June 8, 2021
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New Publications from Geography Faculty and Graduate Students!
March 15, 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
Photo Austin Crane
Ph.D. Candidate Austin Crane Profiled in "American Songwriter"
January 7, 2021
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2020-2021 Labor Studies Scholarships and Prizes: Including Two New Geography Graduate Students!
November 5, 2020
Grid photo of 9 new geography graduate students set against an image of Smith Hall
Welcome to our 2020 Graduate Students!
October 30, 2020
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UW awarded NIH grant for training in advanced data analytics for behavioral and social sciences
October 20, 2020
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2020 Awards, Honors and Achievements
June 16, 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
Front cover of report "The Union Effect: Raising Standards for Workers Across Washington," featuring three people packing boxes in a warehouse.
Report Co-Written by Presidential Dissertation Fellow Lee Fiorio Featured in "The Stand"
October 16, 2019
Ken Wolkin, Tyler McCrea, Danielle Brown, Ellie Cleasby.
Welcome to our 2019 Graduate Students!
October 7, 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
Laudelina Campos de Melo.
Ph.D. Candidate Caitlin Alcorn Wins AAG's Geographic Perspectives on Women Award for Dissertation Proposal
June 11, 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
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Geography Ph.D. Candidate Julian Barr Writes Blog Post about "Creative Pedagogies"
March 26, 2019
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Geography Graduate Student Lee Fiorio Featured in Perspectives!
March 18, 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
Dr. Jay Lund smiles in a field on a sunny day.
Alum Profile: Dr. Jay Lund Elected to National Academy of Engineering
February 12, 2019
Students in GEOG 478 in autumn quarter
Enacting Social Justice Principles in the Classroom... and in the City
January 29, 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
Students at Mitre’s Monument in La Isla – Recoleta
Exploring Neoliberalism and Urban Space Through Study Abroad in Buenos Aires
October 30, 2018