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  • Student Spotlight Gianna Guarino

    January 21, 2015

    Gianna's personal interests are mostly in the intersection of human health and geography, and in particular communicable diseases. The spatial component of geography gives her a unique lens with which to see and interpret the world. She also been very excited by her opportunities to work with GIS and use it to answer questions to problems such as where one should locate a nuclear power plant in New Hampshire or Vermont, based on 5-6 factors.

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  • Student Spotlight: Yaritza Gonzalez '15

    September 23, 2014

    Yaritza A. González participated in the Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP) at the University of California, Berkeley. Interested in the racialized construction of Proposition 227, Yaritza conducted a project, "Raising Third Space Consciousness in our Barrios: A Case Study on the Spanish Speaking Citizens Foundation," that discusses how Spanish speaking immigrants in East Oakland have been discriminated based on language.

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  • The migration response to the Legal Arizona Workers Act

    September 2, 2014

    Richard Wright has a new paper in the journal Political Geography.  Working with Mark Ellis, Matt Townley and Kristi Copeland (U Washington), he is interested in the effects of state level legislation on internal migration in the US.  The effects of Jim Crow laws on the exodus of blacks form the US South are well known and well documented.  Wright and colleagues ask: are the immigrant hostile environments in certain US states producing outflows of targeted populations.

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