WKU Geography and Geology Blog

This past week at the annual Kentucky GIS conference hosted by KAMP (Kentucky Association of Mapping Professionals) in Frankfort, Kevin Cary accepted a GIS award on behalf of the Department.  The award is an Exemplary System Award for Geographic Information Science at Western Kentucky University.  This award recognizes our GIS program as being *the* excellent GIS program in Kentucky.  It was also mentioned that WKU has provided the most successful GIS Analyst/Specialists to the Commonwealth and in the greatest number (143 GIS Certificates awarded to date).  For more information about the GIS program at WKU, please email Kevin Cary.

Welcome back students and faculty to the Department of Geography and Geology for the Fall 2009 semester.  We welcome new faculty Drs Gripshover, Fan, and Polk and 18 new Geoscience graduate students.   Don’t forget to come to the Friday afternoon departmental faculty/student seminars in EST 260 at 3 pm.  This Friday September 4th, you’ll here introductions and a research overview from each of our faculty and graduate students.  Have a great semester!