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Dr. Dan Hammel, professor in the Department of Geography and Planning, who’s researching several aspects of national foreclosure trends...More 

In the middle of the summer vacation the high school Alexander-von-Humboldt Gymnasium was visited by a professor from the US who appeared to be quite taken with the work of this school. Prof. Kevin Czajkowski and his wife visited the GLOBE study group (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment)...More

Have you ever dreamed of presenting your hard work to the president of the United States of America? Dr. Kevin Czajkowski, UT professor of geography, has given K-12 students a chance to do just that...More and Related Article 

After spending two years on Cheju Island with the Peace Corps in 1972, Dr. David Nemeth, returned to America to begin studying and writing a book about the traditional agricultural practices of the islanders and how these were being disrupted by Korea’s rapidly industrializing economy...More 

The UpTown District of Toledo has the potential to become a family-friendly environment, and UT students who participated in a Community Planning Workshop class have suggestions to make it happen...More

UT outstanding advisers, researchers and teachers, and recipients of the Edith Rathbun Award for Outreach and Engagement were recognized last week at the Academic Honors Reception. Dr. Kevin Czajkowski was the winner of the Outstanding Researcher Award; Dr. Patrick Lawrence was the winner of the Edith Rathbun Award for Outreach and Engagement...More

Yujin Lee, a junior Geography and Planning student, will spend her summer in Washington, D.C., as one of a limited number of geography interns at the National Geographic Society...More

The marks of any academic worth her or his scholastic salt may be said to be the ingenuity and adaptability to reshape a research program in response to a changing world. Last fall, Dr.Dan Hammel traveled to Nanjing Normal University to pursue his research and study gentrification in Chinese cities...More

Geography and Planning students Mary Page Dalrymple and Leah Sophia Mullen have been chosen as the 2011-12 recipients of the Raoul Wallenberg Scholar Award...More

Dr. Neil Reid, UT associate professor of geography and planning, and director of the Urban Affairs Center, returned recently from Poland, where he taught a weeklong intensive course as a visiting professor at Czestochowa University of Technology...More

The Department of Geography and Planning and the Department of Political Science and Public Administration will relocate to the Snyder Memorial Building over spring break...More

Jessica Kelley, a senior at The University of Toledo majoring in geography and planning, has spent much of her college career performing community service.Due to her service in the UT community, the Toledo community, and communities across the country, she has been named the 2010 annual Jefferson Awards for Public Service “Champion” winner...More

The University of Toledo is looking for ways to restore and protect the Great Lakes, and the Department of Geography and Planning  was awarded a $550,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to develop ways to reduce the impact of sewage sludge on surface water in the Great Lakes...More

Jeff Kodysh, a senior geography student, recently competed against some of the nation’s most intelligent young scientists and engineers from top U.S. colleges, including Harvard, Stanford and MIT. And he placed third in the energy division of the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2010 Science and Energy Challenge...More

The University of Toledo beat out dozens of universities to receive the Global Climate Change Education Award from the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA). The award totals $377,251 and is part of NASA’s nationwide program to educate students and teachers about climate change...More

About 6,000 students apply each year to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Science Undergraduate Laboratory internship program. With an acceptance rate of roughly only 15 percent, The University of Toledo’s Jeffrey Kodysh said he was ecstatic to beat the odds and secure a spot at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)...More

The UT Research Council has selected 22 faculty members to receive grants from the University Research Awards and Fellowship (URAF) Program and the deArce Memorial Endowment Fund in Support of Medical Research and Development. Dr. Sujata Shetty was one of the recipients with "Confronting Shrinkage: The Planning Challenge for Toledo, Ohio"...More

The University of Toledo’s outstanding teachers and researchers and the recipients of the Edith Rathbun Outreach Award were recognized last week during an awards ceremony at the The Hotel at The University of Toledo. Dr. Neil Reid, was one of the recipients of the Outstanding Researcher Award...More