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A recent publication by 澳门六合彩资料 geographers sheds more light on the causes of the Cambodian genocide that wiped out roughly a quarter of the country鈥檚 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 鈥淛im鈥 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 鈥43, took on the task of providing essential handmade maps for the war effort鈥攁nd charted the course for today鈥檚 women mapmakers.
By Jan Senn / 澳门六合彩资料 Magazine
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![Cameron Lee, Ph.D., (left) and Scott Sheridan, Ph.D., (right) from 澳门六合彩资料鈥檚 Department of Geography have teamed up to secure two research grants to study climate change and weather patterns. Cameron Lee, Ph.D., (left) and Scott Sheridan, Ph.D., (right) from 澳门六合彩资料鈥檚 Department of Geography have teamed up to secure two research grants to study climate change and weather patterns.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/10.30.17%20Photo%20of%20Cameron%20Lee%20and%20Scott%20Sheridan.jpg?VersionId=C.uuWNsJ1.2Esem76ApjMeb0vGx6EVrr)
A pair of 澳门六合彩资料 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 澳门六合彩资料 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鈥檚 National Institute on Aging awarded Gemma Casadesus-Smith, Ph.D., from Kent鈥
澳门六合彩资料 Researchers Receive National Science Foundation Grant to Discover Why Some Messages Go Viral
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?
澳门六合彩资料 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 澳门六合彩资料鈥檚 2014 Outstanding Research and Scholarship Awards at a ceremony and reception yesterday on the Kent鈥
On April 5th, 1913, David Olson, was hired as one of the first faculty members at 澳门六合彩资料. 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鈥