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Welcome to the Department of Geography's Web site!

Whether you are a prospective student interested in learning what our department has to offer, a current undergraduate or graduate student, a parent/guardian, alumni, or other interested party, we want you to find what you are looking for when you visit this site. We welcome suggestions for additions/revisions; please e-mail Administrative Associate Amy Meeks or Chair and Professor Dr. James Dyer.

The Ohio University Department of Geography is a dynamic department with 150 undergraduate majors and a graduate program that has expanded to 25. Faculty in the department offer coursework and conduct research on topics that bring together the Earth's human and physical components and focus on issues from local to global scales. Our mission is to create, disseminate, and apply the highest forms of geographical knowledge and scholarship.

The department offers six degree programs and a graduate and undergraduate certificate program in GISc. These innovative programs provide multiple perspectives and tools to understand the relationships between people and their environments and solve problems related to local and global change. Undergraduate Chair Dr. Dorothy Sack and Graduate Chair Dr. James Lein are available to answer questions about our programs. Dorothy can be reached at sack@ohio.edu or 740-593-1149. Jim can be reached at lein@ohio.edu or 740-593-1147. If you are a prospective student or parent/guardian of a prospective student and would like to schedule a visit with the department chair, Jim can be reached at dyer@ohio.edu or 740-593-1138.

In addition, we want to take this opportunity to thank alumni and benefactors for their generous gifts and support! Your support significantly enhances our teaching, research, and service activities. Your gifts support a variety of student-centered activities, such as internships, graduate student recruitment activities, and the departmental scholarships that we award to our best and brightest students. The scholarships that we award annually (and which are funded solely by gifts and endowments) are as follows:

• The Regina L. Bloemer Scholarship in Geography (undergraduate)
• The Olive Emler Ross Scholarship in Geography (undergraduate)
• The Hubert and Constance Wilhelm Geography Scholarship (undergraduate)
• The Robe Scholarship in Geography and Geology (undergraduate; alternate years)
• The David Keirns Award for Outstanding Public Service (undergraduate meteorology)
• The Isaac Sindiga Memorial Scholarship (graduate)

We also award several Outstanding Graduating Senior awards, and two Outstanding Teaching Assistant (one to a first year student; one to a second year student) awards on an annual basis that are funded by Foundation funds. If you would like to contribute to any of these scholarship funds or the department’s general Foundation fund, details about giving to the department are available here.