Education

• April 13, 2010Education, Events, general, GeographyAwareness

  Inventor of Rubik’s Cube to appear at USA Science and Engineering Festival

  You may remember that we’ve mentioned the USA Science and Engineering Festival, which will be held in October in Washington, DC. It is a great idea to celebrate science and […]

• March 4, 2010Education, general, GeographyAwareness

  Popular Science Archive now online – and free!

  Yes, that’s right, 137 years of awesome issues of Popular Science magazine are now available online by searching the archive at the PopSci website. If you’re a science or gadget […]

• December 17, 2009Education, Human Geography

  Does GIS Make Kids Gullible?

  I just read a weird article about “Some Ways to Make Children Think Santa Exists” that includes children follow Santa’s journey on Norad all the way up to a voice […]

• December 15, 2009Cartography, Education, Physical Geography

  British Geological Survey Maps

  The British Geological Survey, the world’s oldest national geological survey, is offering GEOSCIENCE, a free service for sharing geospatial information including maps, 3D maps, and photographs. The GEOSCENIC is really […]

• November 10, 2009Education, general, GeographyAwareness

  The Geospatial Semester – a great program for high school students in Virginia through JMU

  James Madison University has a great new partnership with high school in Virginia for a program called The Geospatial Semester . From the Geospatial Semester webpage: “The Geospatial Semester is […]

• November 3, 2009Education, ESRIUC, Events, general

  New GIScience track at the 2010 ESRI User Conference

  The Call for Papers has gone out for the new GIScience Research track at the 2010 ESRI International User Conference. “Papers in this special track must focus on cutting-edge research […]

• November 2, 2009Education, Events, general, GeographyAwareness

  First ever USA Science and Engineering Festival – Fall 2010!

  This is so cool – Next fall, from October 10-24th, the Inaugural USA Science & Engineering Festival, the US’s first national science festival, will be held in the Washington, DC […]

• May 22, 2009Education, general, GeographyAwareness

  Congratulations to Geography Bee Winner Eric Yang!

  Once again it’s time for the annual National Geographic Bee. Eric Yang has won this year’s contest with a perfect score.  Pretty impressive!  Congratulations to Eric and let’s hope he […]

• May 14, 2009AAG, Education, general

  Jesse comments on “Aspiring Academics” – Part 2

  In Part 1 of my comments on Aspiring Academics: A Resource Book for Graduate Students and Early Career Faculty from the AAG I focused on online resources to build on […]

• May 13, 2009Education, general

  USGIF Scholarships – deadline May 29

  We recently had the chance to talk to Keith Masback, President of the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, back on Episode 189 of the podcast. Part of the conversation was […]