WKU Geography and Geology Blog

The Kentucky Council for Post-Secondary Education (CPE) approved the Department’s new B.S. degree in Meteorology recently. This new professional degree requires 49.5 hours of coursework, with an additional 24 hours in supporting mathematics and physics courses. For more information, visit the Meteorology Blog, or visit the Department website’s Meteorology Program page. High-school students are encouraged to take at least single elements of calculus in their senior year and to earn AP math credit if possible.

Congratulations to all of our students who graduated this Spring. Fourteen students earned degrees in geography, with various concentrations, and ten GIS certificates were awarded. Geology students continue to find success in REU opportunities - Chelsea Brunner is the latest to spend the summer on an exciting REU research project. Two geoscience students finished their MS thesis projects and graduated - Ashley Littell and Johanna Kovarik. Faculty and students are busy this summer on a variety of research projects, the Kentucky Geographical Alliance is running a workshop for P-12 teachers, and a new summer course - Geographic Concepts for Teachers - is being taught by Dr. Kay Gandy (Teacher Education). Please join the Department on Friday August 31st at 3 pm in EST 260 for the annual departmental Fall welcome. Have a good summer everyone.