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Subject:        Re: MAPS-L: Harvard gets a geography dept
Date:   Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:39:22 -0500
From:   Salim Mohammed <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>



The Center for Geographic Analysis is not at the same level as a
department, with a strong focus on analysis, especially GIS.  I am not
ready to call it a department yet, although I have heard that is
eventually going to become a full-fledged department.  It certainly
isn't listed as one on their website.  However it is many steps up from
University of Chicago, which used to (and perhaps still does) have a
Committee on Geography, another school that dropped Geography a while ago.

Best, Salim

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G. Salim Mohammed
MA, Library Information Studies, May 2006 and
MS, Geography, 2005 from
University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Angie Cope, AGSL wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:        Harvard gets a geography dept
> Date:   Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:47:34 +0200
> From:   Brendan Whyte <[log in to unmask]>
> To:     [log in to unmask]
>
> Was this mentioned in May?
> Harvard has relaunched geography, which it dropped in the 1940s, and
> quotes geographic ignorance among Americans as a factor.
>
> http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/05.11/05-geography.html
>
> Dr Brendan Whyte
> Geography Department
> Hebrew University of Jerusalem
> ISRAEL
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