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A recent publication by Kent State geographers sheds more light on the causes of the Cambodian genocide that wiped out roughly a quarter of the country’s population in the late 1970s.
In the wake of the Parkland massacre, American Association of Geographers President, Derek Alderman, reaches out to newly selected AAG Fellow, James “Jim” Tyner, who has written several books and important articles on the relationship between space, society, and violence.
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As the United States entered WWII, trailblazing women like Bea McPherson, BS ’43, took on the task of providing essential handmade maps for the war effort—and charted the course for today’s women mapmakers.
By Jan Senn / Kent State Magazine
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A pair of լƵAPP geographers have teamed up to secure two research grants totaling more than $550,000 for separate projects to study climate change and weather patterns.
Two լƵAPP researchers from the College of Arts and Sciences have been awarded more than $1 million in federal grants for their research projects.
The National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Aging awarded Gemma Casadesus-Smith, Ph.D., from Kent…
We have all seen them explode on social media. They are the posts that feature the outlandish, the cute and the funny messages that go viral.
But how does one message catch on and others do not?
լƵAPP recently received a $330,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to use historical satellite imagery and archival research to study landscapes of mass violence in Cambodia during and after the regime of the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1979.
An internationally recognized social geographer, a metadata expert and a leading researcher in the science of liquid crystals and nanomaterials received լƵAPP’s 2014 Outstanding Research and Scholarship Awards at a ceremony and reception yesterday on the Kent…
On April 5th, 1913, David Olson, was hired as one of the first faculty members at լƵAPP. In Fall 1913 he went on to be the founding Chair of the Department of Geography.
This Fall, we therefore proudly turn 100. The upcoming year will be marked by…