Student Success

Portrait photo of Maro Denton in a forest

Welcome to Our 2024 Graduate Students!

(September 25, 2024)

Professor Gretchen Sneegas Featured on the Wiki Education Blog

(September 3, 2024)

Catching Up with Ph.D. Candidate Natalie Vaughan-Wynn

(May 10, 2024)

Alum Profile: Building a Legal Career Inspired by Urban Geography and Pursuit of Social Justice

(April 17, 2024)

Portrait Photo of Geography Alum Sue Nevler

Alum Profile: From Cape Cod to the Pacific Northwest and Beyond

(April 15, 2024)

Street sign showing the intersection of The Ave (University Way) and 45th Street in U-District on Feb 14, 2024.

Behind The Daily: Reporter Shira Zur Applies Geography Skills to Data Journalism

(February 21, 2024)

Geography Student Film Featured in Study Abroad Film Festival

(January 16, 2024)

Winter 2024 Registration Changes

(January 3, 2024)

Buy Now, Get Newer - Tomorrow. Worry-Free Returns.

Announcement: Winners of the GeoAI Prompt Contest

(November 16, 2023)

Flyer with details for GeoAI Prompt Contest

GeoAI Prompt Contest: Visioning Grand Challenges for Humanity and Earth

(October 24, 2023)

Washington GIS Association Awards First Place Prize to UW Geographers Shane Dang and Alex Kirchmeier

(July 13, 2023)

Portrait Photography of Isaac Rivera, Ph.D.

Meet Isaac Rivera, One of the 2023 College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Medalists

(July 13, 2023)

Without affirmative action, colleges face a tough path to diversity

(April 26, 2023)

Kels and Toby Gallant from the Student Disability Commission stand together to the right of the emergency contraception vending machine located on the first floor of Odegaard Library in the cafe section

Announcing Our 2023 Halmo Geography Scholar: Kels Rizzo!

(April 5, 2023)

Humanistic GIS Lab Leverage GIS with Humanism

Humanistic GIS Lab Brings Together Students and Faculty for Innovative Research Opportunities

(April 3, 2023)

Geography Alum Thai Nguyen sits on the right, with Shoreline resident Patti Shah Karam seated on the left.

How to fix the mental health workforce? WA has an underutilized resource: peer counselors

(January 30, 2023)

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Ph.D. Candidate Julian Barr Featured in Going Public Podcast Episode 6:"Politics of Memory"

(January 4, 2023)

Q&A with Geography Ph.D. Alum Rob Anderson: Managing Washington’s gray wolf population – through fear

(November 21, 2022)

Yuying Xie Receives the Frank Jenkins Jr. Fellowship in Labor Studies

(November 18, 2022)

40 Under 40: Natasha Rivers, BECU

(September 26, 2022)

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)

Geography Staff Members Parwati Martin, Nell Gross, Lindsay Cael and Drew Gamboa

Introducing Our New Undergraduate Advisor, Drew!

(June 28, 2022)

2022 Awards, Honors and Achievements

(June 15, 2022)

Announcing Our 2022 Halmo Geography Scholars!

(March 25, 2022)

Recent Geography Alum Bukhari Shakil Featured by Career & Internship Center

(March 21, 2022)

Congratulations to our 2022 AAG Award Winners!

(March 14, 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)

Unlearning Poverty

(June 15, 2021)

2021 Awards, Honors and Achievements

(June 8, 2021)

Deepfake Maps Could Really Mess With Your Sense of the World

(May 28, 2021)

From Seattle Central College to UW Geography with an Emphasis on Social Justice

(May 11, 2021)

ArtSci Roundup: A new Measure: the Revolutionary Quantum Reform of the Metric System, Sacred Breath: Indigenous Writing and Storytelling Series, and more

(May 10, 2021)

Remembering UW Geography Alum Gerald Halmo

(March 30, 2021)

How ‘Story Maps’ Redraw the World Using People’s Real-Life Experiences

(March 26, 2021)

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)

New Publications from Geography Faculty and Graduate Students!

(March 15, 2021)

From Making Connections to Administrative Assistant, Feben Alemu Inspires Others at the UW Women's Center

(February 25, 2021)

ArtSci Roundup: Katz Distinguished Lecture: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Contemporary Environmental Issues In Taiwan, Global Perspectives on Restorative Justice & Race, and More

(February 17, 2021)

Ph.D. Candidate Austin Crane Profiled in "American Songwriter"

(January 7, 2021)

The Value of a Non-STEM Major, with Dean Stacey

(January 5, 2021)

First Annual GIS Day at UW Is a Resounding, Remote Success!

(December 1, 2020)

Reimagining Social Care and Racial Justice

(November 19, 2020)

Dr. Lawson (Honors Director and Geography Faculty) Interview with Talia Kertsmann

(November 12, 2020)

2020-2021 Labor Studies Scholarships and Prizes: Including Two New Geography Graduate Students!

(November 5, 2020)

‘2020: The Course’ ponders the meaning of this unusual year

(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)

Forest Coverage Change in Bach Ma National Park

GIS Workshop Students Prepare for "Real Life" in Collaboration with Employers like MEDRIX

(August 10, 2020)

Five myths about policing

(June 26, 2020)