Program Innovation

Student holding #HireHuskies sign at UW Career Fair
Creating Community Among Geography Alums: Introducing the Alum Ambassador Committee
June 13, 2025
Person outside wearing a jacket and hat
Professor Gretchen Sneegas Featured on the Wiki Education Blog
September 3, 2024
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
Announcing Our 2022 Halmo Geography Scholars!
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
Unlearning Poverty
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
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
Geography Graduate Student Lee Fiorio Featured in Perspectives!
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
Simpson Center Funds New Crossdisciplinary Research Cluster, The Postcolonial Animal
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