Geography Stories & News

Seven UNI geography students in front of the Red Rock Ampitheater
Apr 07, 2023

UNI geography students selected to present at American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting

Fall 2022 graduating seniors
Dec 14, 2022

Meet the fall 2022 Panther grads

It's time to meet the class of fall 2022! Learn more about a few of the newest alums of the University of Northern Iowa.

Jennifer Trent
Jul 26, 2022

IWRC’s Jennifer Trent to serve on the Des Moines Climate Action & Adaptation Plan Technical Advisory Group

Jennifer Trent of the Iowa Waste Reduction Center will be contributing to Des Moines's first Climate Action & Adaptation Plan.

UNI senior Lindsey Hubbell in a kayak.
Sep 09, 2021

Mapping out a career

Senior Lindsey Hubbell got a summer job that allowed her to kayak on Lake Okoboji thanks to UNI’s GeoTREE center. And she’s not the only student at the center tackling real-world projects in the booming field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

A village in the Arctic.
Aug 26, 2021

UNI researchers point to global COVID-19 lessons in the Arctic

In a study published this week in the prestigious journal Nature Medicine, University of Northern Iowa researchers examine COVID-19’s impact on Indigenous populations in the Arctic and how it could be crucial to addressing the pandemic both today and in future epidemics.