Geography
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Students head for Siberia with international Polaris Project team
For the third year, Clark students have earned a spot on the 'Rising Stars' arctic research field course.
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Clark hosts Human-Animal Studies Fellowship Conference
Clark University is hosting the Animals and Society Institute’s 2010 Human-Animal Studies Fellowship Conference, under way since May 24 and featuring public presentations by 20 distinguished scholars from around the world, from June 28 through July 1. This is the fourth year of the six-week ASI program, which brings together animal-studies scholars for individual research focusing on a…
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NAS Fellow A. Bebbington to head renowned School of Geography
Esteemed scientist Anthony Bebbington will become director of Clark University’s acclaimed Graduate School of Geography, also assuming the title of Higgins Professor of Environment and Society. Bebbington was appointed in March 2009 to assume the position starting July 2010. In April 2009, Bebbington was elected as a member of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences (NAS), which is considered…
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GIS innovator Eastman receives Distinguished Career Award
Clark University professor of geography J. Ronald Eastman, developer of the IDRISI GIS and Image Processing software, was presented with the Distinguished Career Award from the Association of American Geographers Geographic Information Science and Systems Specialty Group (GISSG), during the 2010 Annual AAG Meeting (April 14-18) in Washington, D.C. The Distinguished Career Award honors senior scholars…
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Summer in Siberia: Clark research expedition heads for the Arctic
Spending four weeks of summer on a barge in Siberia may not be everyone’s cup of borscht but for Clark University Professor Karen Frey and three Clark students interested in climate change, it’s the ultimate field trip. Frey and the students departed for Siberia on July 2 as part of The Polaris Project, which trains…