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Department of Geography, Environment & Society

The Department of Geography, Environment and Society is dedicated to the creation and dissemination of geographical knowledge that shapes the discipline and grounds our teaching.

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UMN Geography 1925-2025

A Century of Discovery: Celebrating 100 Years of Geography, Environment, and Society

Join us as we honor our past, celebrate our present, and build our future. This centennial celebration is an opportunity to reconnect with the community that you shaped and that helped shape your understanding of our world.

Celebrating 100 years

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New Map Brings Census Data to Life

Your neighborhood may change more often than you think. UMN researcher Di Zhu used mobile data to create a "visitor census" revealing a community's hidden life.

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Upcoming Events

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Borchert Lecture with Janet Franklin

Join us for the 19th Annual Borchert Lecture featuring Janet Franklin, exploring global change, ecology, and geospatial science during our centennial year.

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100th Anniversary Lecture with Shaowen Wang

Shaowen Wang with the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will be joining us.

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