Honored for two decades of research, teaching and mentorship at UC Santa Barbara, David López-Carr, a professor in the Department of Geography, has won the 2024 CLAG Teaching Award from the Conference ...

Rick: Ashley, do students need to learn “mere facts”? Twenty years ago, in a 2006 TIME Magazine cover story on “How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20 th Century,” the then-dean of Stanford University ...

It’s almost impossible to go a day without using a map. We check our friends’ locations on Life360, use Google Maps to navigate a trip to the store and track our DoorDash order’s whereabouts. While we ...

Geography played a huge role in making the US a global powerhouse—explore how natural resources, size, and location set America up for dominance. Rep. Elise Stefanik set to drop her bid for NYS ...

The United States has quite a formidable landmass, with thousands of square miles stretched between two oceans, mountains, deserts, great plains, and everything in between. With such a large area, the ...

1. Since 1921, this city has been the home of the Miss America pageant. 2. Name the largest park in Manhattan. 3. The fishhook shape of this Atlantic resort area is easily recognized on a map. 4.

Geography is a function of time as much as location. Even static-seeming places such as deserts or small towns are constantly in flux. How to depict that change, and in doing so convey the forces ...

In 2023 the School of Environment, Geography, and Sustainability (SEGS) was formed from the consolidation of four existing programs (the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, the Department ...