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| Welcome to the Fall edition of the Geography Department newsletter. We are in the midst of a busy semester, as I'm sure this fall is for all of you. Our undergraduate course enrollment is high and new majors are signing on every week. We have a dozen excellent new graduate students, and are proud to have 18 nations represented within our graduate ranks. As you will read later in this newsletter, our faculty and staff are as active as ever. Full article |
Alumni Day 2000
Alumni News
Kenn Arning; Anthony Brazel; Soomee Cha; James DeFilippis; Joy Dingle; Erin Egan; Allan Fei; Elaine (Butterhof) Frick; Rich Harding; Jay Lynch; Elise Bremer-Nei; Mark Shimshak
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(Group photo taken on alumni day, April 29, 2000. This was the final activity in a year long celebration of the Geography Department's 50th anniversary at Rutgers University. We hope to see you in 2010!)
| Sexuality and Space: Queering Geographies of Globalization February 27, 2001- New York City Details Jasbir Puar |
Jasbir Puar joins us from the University of California at Berkley where she completed her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies with an emphasis on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in December 1999. She also has a M.A. in Women's Studies from the University of York.The Geography Graduate Faculty have nominated three new professors for membership. The nominations are now in the hands of the Dean of the Graduate School-New Brunswick for formal approval. Jasbir Puar (Ph.D., UC- Berkeley, 1999), holds a joint appointment in the Womens Studies Department and the Department of Geography. Her special interests are: ethnicity, gender, disasporas and queer studies. David Hughes (Ph.D., UC-Berkeley, 1999) is an anthropologist attached to the Department of Human Ecology. His research focuses on land tenure and environmental management, especially in Africa. Both Jasbir and David arrived at Rutgers in September 2000. Kevin St. Martin (Ph.D., Clark University, 1999) will join the Rutgers faculty in January 2001 as a joint member of the Department of Geography and the Center for Urban Policy Research. He is an economic geographer with particular interests in GIS, cartography and resources management.
Rutgers undergraduate and graduate students, alumnae and faculty were well represented at the Middle States Division meeting of the Association of American Geographers, which was held in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania , October 19-21.
The meeting venue was a labyrinthian streamside resort complex tucked into a small green valley on the edge of one of the countrys oldest industrial centers. It was attended by approximately 200 geographers drawn mainly from New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
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Incoming Class of 2000
This year we welcome aboard a larger than usual group of new students. The total comes to 14 but two are deferred entrants who will not join the program until 2001. The twelve new arrivals on campus are: Chin-fan Chang (Rutgers U.); Jason Goldberg (Vassar College); Joshua Halofsky (Washington U.); Sam Hanes (U. of Texas-Austin); Abdou Jeng (U. of Minnesota); Peter Kabachnik (Rutgers U.); Tom Mitchell (Cambridge U.); Junko Noguchi (U. of Hawaii); Kelly Sponberg (Princeton U.); Louise Stanton (Rutgers Law School); Courtney Wald (U. of Colorado); and Tehmina Zaidi (U. of Punjab & Mount Holyoke College). Julie Silva (UCLA & Rutgers) and Lynda Osfao (Rutgers U.) will hopefully also be on campus in the new year. This years contingent brings graduate program enrollment back to just over 60. More than two-thirds are Ph.D. students, 54% are female and close to 35% hail from outside the United States. Among the countries represented are: Argentina, Canada, China, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Gambia, India, Italy, Japan (3), Korea (2), Mexico, Pakistan, Singapore, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom (2) and the United States (40).
RAGGS News
Michelle Goman and colleagues coring in an oxbow lake in Oaxaca, Mexico
Internship Opportunities in Washington, DC
People, Places
& Patterns
Roger Balm and Bria Holcomb
Michelle Goman
Robert Hordon
Robin Leichenko
Ken Mitchell
Joanna Regulska
Dave Robinson
Rick Schroeder
Pete Wacker
2000 R.A.G.G.S. Officers
President: Cheryl Gowar
Vice President: Mark Pendras
Secretary: Tom Estilow
Faculty Reps: Cheryl Gowar
Grad Faculty Rep/Treasurer: Mark Pendras and Marie Cieri
Meetings & activities will be posted on:
http://geography.rutgers.edu/raggs/index.html
RUGS News
2000-2001 R.U.G.S. Officers
President: Paul Montesano
Vice President: Bernie Jamroz
Treasurer: Jesse Barron
Meetings & activities will be posted on:
http://geography.rutgers.edu/people/
Rugs_web/rugs.html
If you would like to explore career options in organizations that help translate
scientific research into public policy, an internship at one of the National Academies (Science, Engineering, Medicine) may be just right. Several of our alumnae have worked for the NAS and would be pleased to help graduate students or postdoctoral candidates navigate the bureaucracy to paid internships that are available for the period 6/4 - 8/10, 2001.
Deadline for applications is: March 1, 2001.
Contact <internship@nas.edu> or the graduate Director for further information.
Ken Mitchell, Graduate Director jmitchel@rci.rutgers.edu
Many congratulations to the Rutgers team who won the World Geography Bowl at the Middle States AAG in Wilkes Barre. And particular kudos to Jason Goldberg and Tom Mitchell who, as high scorers, will go on to represent the region at the National Finals at the AAG meeting in NYC next Spring. Bob Donovan (as runner up) will be on the "reserve" team.Well done chaps! -Briavel Holcomb
Congratulations to Daniel Falvo, whose paper Polyvarietal Planting And Rice Blast Control in Philippine Uplands, was judged the second place student contribution at the Middle States AAG.
Junko Noguchi, Jason Goldberg, and Louise Stanton
at the Middle States AAG.