Our Department was established in 2007
The Department of Geography and the Environment is Villanova’s newest department
and offers B.A. degrees in Geography and Environmental Studies, and a B.S.
degree in Environmental Science. The department also offers a minor in Geography
and an Environmental Studies Concentration. Majors can also participate in an
Honors Program, and undergraduate research is a cornerstone of our program. The
department was established in 2007 to serve as a multidisciplinary academic unit
to link the social and natural/physical sciences, within the
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and across the University. The department’s
overarching objective is to integrate the disciplines of geography and
environmental science in seeking to understand the spatial patterns of human
systems and landscapes,
environmental processes, and the effects of people on the environment. The
department’s three major programs offer the possibility for students to
concentrate their studies in four exciting, discrete, multi-disciplinary categories: (1)
human systems analysis; (2) geographical technologies and techniques; (3)
regional analysis; and (4) environmental science and landscape analysis.
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News and Events
Graduation 2009 Awards: The Alexander von Humboldt Medallion Award for
Excellence in Geography -- Mr. Ian J. Guenther '09
Graduation 2009 Awards: The Rachel L. Carson Medallion Award for Excellence
in Environmental Studies -- Ms. Katherine A. O'Gara '09 (Inaugural Winner)
Graduation 2009 Awards: The Delaware Valley Geographical Association
Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in Geography -- Mr. Samuel I.
Silverman '09GRADUATION 2009
2009 Graduates include the first two graduates from the Department's
environmental majors. Congratulations to the Class of 2009!
Three members of the Department present papers at the Annual
Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas,
Nevada: Dr. J. Harold Leaman: "“Chad and Oil: The Resource
Curse"; Dr. Keith Henderson: "“Local Climate Effects of
Autumn Leaf-Drop"; and Dr. Frank Galgano: "An
Environmental Security Analysis of Abrupt Climate Change Scenarios"
New Faculty Publications: Dr. Nat Weston co-authored a paper
titled Benthic metabolism and the fate of dissolved inorganic
nitrogen in intertidal sediments,” which was recently published in
Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.
New Faculty Publications: Galgano, Francis A., 2009. "Shoreline
Behavior Along the Atlantic Coast of Delaware." Middle States Geographer,
41: 74-81.
New Faculty Publications: Galgano, Francis A., 2009. "The Borderless Dilemma
of Contemporary Maritime Piracy: Its Geography and Trends." The Pennsylvania
Geographer, 46 (2).
New Faculty Publications: Frank Galgano served on the editorial board for
the 22d edition of Goode's World Atlas, which was published by Rand
McNally in July 2009.
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