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Doug Faulkner with Taylor Limburg and Katie Grong. Taylor and Katie are conducting student-faculty research with Faulkner this summer.  The research is supported by UWEC's Office of Research and Sponsored Programs with Blugold Funding. Photo by Shane Opatz, UWEC. At the April 2019 American Association of Geographers' (AAG) Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., members of our department received a significant academic honor.  Doug Faulkner, Phil Larson (a 2008 graduate and now associate professor at Minnesota State - Mankato), Harry Jol,  Garry   Running, and colleagues in Indiana and Nebraska received the G. K. Gilbert Award for Excellence in Geomorphological Research for an article published in Geomorphology .  To read the article, or just to revel in its excellence, click here: Autogenic incision and terrace formation resulting from abrupt late-glacial base-level fall, lower Chippewa River, Wisconsin, USA .  Not only does this major journal article...

A group of UW-Eau Claire geography graduates and some of their faculty, after commencement, 25 May 2019.  Photograph courtesy of S. Opatz, UWEC. The Department of Geography and Anthropology congratulates our 29 Spring 2019 graduates.  With our 13 graduates in December 2018, we had a total of 42 geography graduates for the year!  We are very happy for our students and thank them for their many contributions to our vibrant and growing community. We concluded the year with 158 geography majors -- a record number for our program.  We are one of the the largest undergraduate geography programs in the Midwest.