February 2011 Archives

Geography Assistant Professor Scott St. George was recently a guest on 5 Eyewitness News (ABC). He discussed how Minnesota's Geography plays a role in flooding.

Watch the video.

Mysteries of Public Financing (co-produced by Judith Martin of Geography's Urban Studies program) is a 1/2 hour documentary from TPT, made in conjunction with the University Metropolitan Consortium.

How governments raise money, how it's spent, who benefits and who pays - the basics of how public funding works and how decisions are made for the public good are explained by policy experts and former finance officials in this TPT documentary.

View the video here.

Brenda Kayzar was interviewed for an article in the Fedgazette about the conclusions she and colleague Steve Manson reached in their CURA (U-CGO) funded project which examines peripheral development in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.

Read the interview.

Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard are spending the spring semester in the Department of Geography, Planning and International Development at the University of Amsterdam, as part of a long-running faculty exchange program between the University of Minnesota and the University of Amsterdam.

IBM's super computer might want to consider enrolling in Fraser Hart's GEOG 3101 US & Canada course next fall. During the February 15th installment of the popular television program Jeopardy, the normally impressive machine confused Toronto with Chicago - even though the Double Jeopardy category was "US Cities." Read the full story at the NY Times.

The Institute of Advanced Study has announced the publication of The City, the River, the Bridge: Before and after the Minneapolis Bridge Collapse, edited by Patrick Nunnally, who teaches courses in our Urban Studies program.

In search of a treasure trove in the guise of a mystery box of who-knows-what? MNDaily explores on-campus Geocaching in their story "GPS Pirates Hunt Treasure."

PhD Student Christopher Crawford was awarded a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship for the 2010-2011 academic year.

This Friday (2/11) the Political Science department presents a short talk by Professor Timothy Brennan (University of Minnesota - Departments of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature and English), followed by a more lengthy discussion. Professor Brennan will present his paper "Hegel's Materialism: 'The Philosophy of Right' and Anti-Colonial Thought."As usual, it will be at 1:30 in 1314 Social Sciences; coffee will be served.

Fridays, 3:30 to 5:00 p.m., Blegen Hall 445 (cookie/coffee reception begins at 3:15pm)

All presentations in the John S. Adams Community Room (445 Blegen Hall) unless noted otherwise.

Welcome Jonas Samuel Brownell to the Geography family, who arrived on 12/29/10 at 12:01 am - 2.5 weeks early.

7lbs 3oz
20 inches long

Proud Mother, Father and Sister are chronicling it all here.