The Department of Geography provides exciting opportunities to explore planet Earth through hands-on experiences and research. Students develop diverse technical and analytical skills necessary to understand some of the most pressing issues of our time. Geography degrees bridge environmental and social sciences, providing a unique opportunity to study people, the environment, and their relationships. Graduates of the geography programs become leaders in a diversity of fields that require creative and integrative thinking. Geographers work in resource management, city planning, national security, energy development, and marketing, among many other careers. The unique critical thinking and spatial analysis skills of geographers are in high demand by industry, non-profit, and government sectors.

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Humankind is facing countless environmental and societal challenges that impact global economies and communities. We cannot tackle those challenges without geographers. Geography is an essential, foundational science that makes possible so much of the research in climate science, biodiversity, energy and oceanography that's critical to our world today.

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Jewel Fanyui, a U.S. Army Reservist and Department of Geography student, plans to turn her passion for GIS into a powerful tool for change.

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Alyssa Schultz has earned a prestigious marine policy fellowship, using her research on deep-sea coral to bridge the gap between science and national policymaking.

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As a Fulbright lecturer in Japan, Dr. Evan Haefeli is spending the fall and spring semesters teaching undergraduate and graduate American history courses at three different universities in Tokyo. He joins Statistics' Dr. Derya Akleman and Geography's Dr. Kathleen O'Reilly, who were appointed most recently as 2023-24 Fulbright Scholars in Turkey and India, respectively.