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Current 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 '09

    GRADUATION 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.

Previous Events

  • Lisa Rattray to speak on 28 March
  • April 2008 - J. Harold Leaman, Keith Henderson, and Frank Galgano to attend Annual Meeting of the AAG in Boston, 15-19 April 2008
  • January 2008 - NCSE 8th National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment (Dr. Lisa Rodrigues)
  • November 2007 - Middle States AAG Meeting - Reading Pennsylvania (Dr. Keith Henderson and Dr. Frank Galgano)