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.
SIUE recently received a $215,000 research grant from the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) to identify available methodologies for collecting and storing highway inventory data. Working on the project are Shunfu Hu, professor of geography, and his graduate assistant Kamiliah Logralso, as well as Huoguo Zhou, assistant professor of civil engineering; Jie Gong, assistant professor of construction; […]
Last Monday, Edwardsville high school students took to the campus with gps units at the ready. The students are part of the new advanced placement geography course being taught for the first time this semester. The course has been organized through a joint effort between Edwardsville high school and SIUE’s Geography Department.
“Most people really don’t […]
Susan Hume has a split personality — research-wise, that is.
Hume, associate professor of geography at SIUE, focuses her research on geographic education and, on the other end of the spectrum, people who immigrate to the U.S.
That passion is what got Hume elected to become president of the National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE).
“It’s obviously an honor,” […]
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