The SIUE geography club sent two faculty members and 10 students to volunteer for the 6thAnnual River des Peres Trash Bash.
SIUE Geography Club members volunteered for the Trash Bash. Photo courtesy of Stacey Brown.
Held Saturday, Oct. 18, at the rivers and creeks within the River des Peres Watershed in Missouri, local environmental community groups, coalitions […]
SIUE Geography seniors and graduate students mentored 25 Edwardsville High School students in AP Geography. Professor Randy Pearson arranged the program. Photo provided by Pearson
For the first time this year, SIUE geography seniors and graduate students mentored Edwardsville High School (EHS) students on a volunteer basis in “real-world” group projects, according to geography professor Randy […]
Geography students presented before the Edwardsville Plan Commission as part of their Sustainable Transportation course taught by professor Susan Hume. They presented ways to improve the area with complete street components and other recommendations. Photo by Theresa San Luis
Students in geography professor Susan Hume’s Sustainable Transportation class presented their research and findings on how to […]
St. Louis has the largest Bosnian population outside of Bosnia and Herzegovina, according to geography professor Susan Hume.
Geography professor Susan Hume lectures about her research on Bosnian migration to south St. Louis as part of the 2014 College of Arts and Sciences Colloquium. Photo by Kari Williams
Hume discussed her research, “Bosnian Migration to St. Louis […]
Geography graduate student Adam King has raised funds to send water filters to the Philippines
Amid the Nov. 8 typhoon disaster in the Philippines and other countries around the world facing water contamination, geography graduate student Adam King is raising funds through the Wine to Water organization to send the country water filtration systems.
Recently, he recruited a number […]
This semester SIUE geography 408 students continued a long standing tradition by participating in the Geography Field Program in Silverton Colorado. The program is a joint research venture involving eight universities designed to teach students the basics of mountain geography and cryospheric science.
The program was started over thirty years ago by Arizona State University’s Melvin […]
The College of Arts and Sciences has a busy schedule of events coming up between now and the end of the semester. Coming up this Monday and Tuesday is this year’s CAS Colloquium titled, “Thinking About the Book,” with a wide variety of lectures and events by SIUE faculty will look at the role of […]
Saturday March 23 the SIUE Geography Club lent a hand with the Fifth Annual Confluence Trash Bash. This one day event is part of an effort from local communities to clean up river waste. The event includes lunch and prizes for best trash.
“One of the things I’m really passionate about is community service,” club faculty […]
From October tenth through twelfth the Association of American Geographers (AAG) held their annual applied geography conference in Minneapolis. This conference is an opportunity for geography scholars to gather and discuss their current work.
The AAG is a nonprofit scientific and educational society dedicated to promoting scholarly discussion among geographers both in private industry and academia. […]
Last Tuesday Mark Hildebrandt and Randall Pearson of the SIUE Department of Geography teamed up with Columbus Elementary and Edwardsville High School for a synchronized weather balloon launch. Students and faculty built, launched, chased, and retrieved balloons carrying global positioning and weather monitoring instrumentation for an over the top science experiment.
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