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Annual Meeting

Social Media at #AAG2021

Emily Fekete February 16, 2021 Social Media at #AAG20212021-02-16T14:54:37-05:00 Annual Meeting
We’re getting closer to the 2021 AAG Annual Meeting! Whether you will be attending the meeting all week, for a few days, or catching up with recordings of presentations between other obligations, there are plenty of ways to get involved using social media. Social media is a great way for seasoned conference goers and newcomers…
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AAG Holds Workshops on Student Recruitment at Regional Division Meetings

Coline Dony, Emily Fekete, Mark Revell December 2, 2019 AAG Holds Workshops on Student Recruitment at Regional Division Meetings2020-05-04T16:55:44-04:00 Association News
AAG President David Kaplan recently outlined the need among geography programs to actively recruit students and to develop further community connections to AP Human Geography teachers. Geography faculty and chairs at colleges and universities, however, share difficulties attracting students to major in geography (or related) degrees mainly because students are unfamiliar with the discipline or…
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AAG Staff Participate in AP Human Geography Reading

Emily Fekete June 26, 2019 AAG Staff Participate in AP Human Geography Reading2019-06-26T12:09:19-04:00 Association News
AAG Staff member Emily Fekete recently participated in the AP Human Geography Reading, held annually June 1 to June 9 in Cincinnati, Ohio. The AP Human Geography Reading is a gathering of college professors and AP high school teachers for the purposes of evaluating essays written by students who took the AP Human Geography exam.…
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Social Media at #aagDC

Emily Fekete March 19, 2019 Social Media at #aagDC2019-03-19T11:14:27-04:00 Annual Meeting
We’re getting closer to the 2019 AAG Annual Meeting! Whether you will be attending the meeting all week, for a few days, or looking to follow the action from afar, there are plenty of ways to get involved using social media. Social media is a great way for seasoned conference goers and newcomers alike to…
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AAG Grants & Awards Conferred

AAG Names Rita Colwell as the 2019 Honorary Geographer

Emily Fekete November 14, 2018 AAG Names Rita Colwell as the 2019 Honorary Geographer2018-11-14T11:03:16-05:00 AAG Grants & Awards Conferred
Rita Colwell (Photo by Sam Kittner) The American Association of Geographers has named Rita Colwell, the first woman to be director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), as its 2019 AAG Honorary Geographer. Rita Colwell currently is a distinguished university professor at the University of Maryland at College Park and at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg…
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AAG Grants & Awards Conferred

Carla Hayden, 2019 AAG Atlas Awardee, to Speak in D.C.

Emily Fekete August 22, 2018 Carla Hayden, 2019 AAG Atlas Awardee, to Speak in D.C.2018-08-22T10:51:28-04:00 AAG Grants & Awards Conferred
The American Association of Geographers invites attendees of the 2019 AAG Annual Meeting in Washington, , to join in celebration of Carla Hayden at the AAG Atlas Award Ceremony. Carla Hayden, 14th Librarian of Congress, will deliver a keynote address at noon on Friday, April 5, after being presented with the 2019 AAG Atlas Award,…
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Annual Meeting

Social Media at #AAG2018

Emily Fekete March 1, 2018 Social Media at #AAG20182018-11-14T10:30:42-05:00 Annual Meeting
We’re getting closer to the 2018 AAG Annual Meeting! Whether you will be attending the meeting all week, for a few days, or looking to follow the action from afar, there are plenty of ways to get involved using social media. Social media is a great way for seasoned conference goers and newcomers alike to…
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Association News

‘The International Encyclopedia of Geography’ receives CHOICE Award for Outstanding Academic Title 2017

Emily Fekete January 4, 2018 ‘The International Encyclopedia of Geography’ receives CHOICE Award for Outstanding Academic Title 20172018-11-14T10:32:35-05:00 Association News
The AAG-Wiley International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology is the recipient of a prestigious CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017 award from the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. The new international AAG publication is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference work in geography today,…
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Member News

Trevor Paglen Named 2017 MacArthur Fellow

Emily Fekete October 19, 2017 Trevor Paglen Named 2017 MacArthur Fellow2017-12-05T17:00:29-05:00 Member News
Geographer and artist Trevor Paglen has been named a MacArthur Fellow for 2017 for his work revealing the secret world of military operations and corporate power through a mixture of artistic photography, cartographic analysis, and boots-on-the-ground geography. He uses public records and field work to bring public attention to the secrecy surrounding government surveillance, warfare,…
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