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The Wrigley-Fairchild Prize was established by the American Geographical Society in 1994 as a way to promote scholarly writing among new scholars published in the Geographical Review. The prize was given every three years to the author of the best article by an early-career scholar published in the most recent three volumes of the Geographic ...
The five themes were published in 1984 [1] and widely adopted by teachers, textbook publishers, and curriculum designers in the United States. [2] Most American geography and social studies classrooms have adopted the five themes in teaching practices, [ 3 ] as they provide "an alternative to the detrimental, but unfortunately persistent, habit ...
Jeffrey David Sachs (/ s æ k s / SAKS; born November 5, 1954) [4] is an American economist and public policy analyst who is a professor at Columbia University, [5] [6] where he was former director of The Earth Institute.
Clarence James Glacken (1909 – August 20, 1989) was an American Professor of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley.He was known for a 1967 magnum opus, Traces on the Rhodian Shore, that demonstrated how perceptions of the natural environment shaped the course of human events over millennia.
Mark Berger, B.A. 1964 – recipient of four Academy Awards for sound mixing and adjunct professor at UC Berkeley [58]; John Dykstra – staff researcher (c. 1973–1975) at UC Berkeley's Institute of Urban and Regional Development, which developed computer-controlled cameras and associated technologies that were later adapted for the groundbreaking special effects in Star Wars and later films ...
Jeffrey Brown, B.A. – Senior Correspondent on the PBS news program The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer [44] Peter Chernin , B.A. 1974 – president of News Corporation and CEO of the Fox Group [ 45 ] -- Corey Flintoff , B.A. 1970 – NPR Foreign Desk Correspondent and former host of NPR's All Things Considered [ 46 ]
Douglas R. Powell (1920–2006) was a geographer at the University of California, Berkeley. Powell was known for being one of the first snow surveyors in the world. He worked with the California Cooperate Snow Survey for 28 years and established snow surveying programs in Afghanistan and Chile . [ 1 ]
Borden D. Dent (1938–2000) was an American geographer and cartographer who served as professor emeritus and chairman of the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Georgia State University. His textbook, Cartography: Thematic Map Design , is one of the seminal texts in the field, and its seventh edition was reissued in 2023.