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article Fiona Danks '96

May 29, 2015

Fiona Danks '96 is the Senior Programme Officer in the Science Programme at UNEP-WCMC (UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre) the...

article Peter Jolicoeur '95

May 29, 2015

Geography has played in important role Peter's my life and career. After graduation, Peter worked at the National Geographic Society as a...

article Thomas Boldt '94

May 26, 2015

Thomas has always joked that he graduated with one of the few practical degrees from a liberal arts school - with an ability to read a map...

article Thomas Boldt '94

May 26, 2015

Thomas Boldt '94 has always joked that he graduated with one of the few practical degrees from a liberal arts school - with an ability to...

article Laura Martin '10

May 26, 2015

The year after graduating from Dartmouth, Laura traveled to India and China studying urban planning with the H. Allen Brooks Traveling...

article David Brown '79

May 26, 2015

David Brown '79 has used his geography education every day of his professional life. His career started in urban planning in Monroe, MI and...

article Student Spotlight Tianyang Wang '15

May 04, 2015

Born and raised in Shanghai, China, Tianyang "Tracy" Wang came into Dartmouth knowing that she wanted to be a Geography major because of her passion for urban planning and traveling. She's fascinated by the inter-disciplinary nature of geography, especially urban geography, GIS, qualitative methods, and visual representations....

article Student Spotlight Lily Michelson '15

April 01, 2015

Lily Michelson ’15 spent her junior summer and senior fall traveling to the rural corners of Northern France and New England, interviewing dairy farmers and dairy industry representatives alike on their views of sustainability. This exciting global adventure, which spanned from standing atop a methane digester in Normandy, France to visiting the first organic dairy farm in the United States, is part of Lily’s senior honors thesis research, which examines understandings of sustainability along the supply chain of dairy and challenges how certain ideas of sustainability are either privileged or rejected along the supply chain. This research stems from the dairy industry’s recent global initiative to measure and reduce the carbon footprint of its products through the adoption of new tools and technologies that are supported by a scientific agenda. Drawing from theories of knowledge production, science, and technology, Lily’s thesis interrogates how different actors across the dairy supply chain—from multinational corporations to small family farmers—internalize sustainability vis-à-vis the growing industry pressure to reduce the overall carbon footprint of dairy....

article New Postdoctoral Fellow Patricia Lopez

March 12, 2015

Tish Lopez is a postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Geography. Her work emerges at the intersections of health and development, citizenship, and militarism. In particular, she investigates the ways in which citizenship, through health and development and military interventions, has been transnationalized, or, unmoored from its traditional framing through the state.