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Professor Abdi Samatar wrote an analysis of Somalia's 2022 election outcomes in The Conversation.

Abdi Samatar's latest book, "Framing Somalia: Beyond Africa's Merchants of Misery" has just been published.

Zeinab Mohamud is a senior majoring in Biology, Society and Environment with a minor in Public Health who spent her summer as an Arvonne Fraser Fellow at Global Rights for…

The third year of residencies have been selected for The Liberal Arts Engagement Hub, part of the University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts.

The list includes several CLA departments: Psychology (19), Statistics (21), Communication (22), Economics (24), Sociology (27), Geography (51-75), Political Sciences (51-75)

New York Times op-ed by Geography faculty member, Dan Griffin.

Matthew Trumper receives outstanding student presentation award.

Thapa joins CoreLogic as Climate Change Scientist

Scott St George receives Beverly and Richard Fink Liberal Arts Faculty Innovation Fund Award.

The latest edition of Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization will be available in mid August.

Three members of our graduate program have been awarded dissertation fellowships from the Graduate School and College.

Assistant Professor Adam Bledsoe shares his experiences with activism near and far and how he applies those experiences in the classroom.

In an op-ed, Professor Abdi Samatar looks at the history showing the West and colonial powers have just as much blood on their hands as Putin’s Russia, if not more.  

Thank you to Katherine Klink (geography, environment and society), Cheryl Olman (psychology), and Mike Houlahan (psychology) for their outstanding contributions to Career…

Chippewa National Forest staff are working with the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, the Leech Lake Tribal College, and the University of Minnesota to research and understand the…

Geography PhD graduate, Dr. Crawford is a USGS scientist and co-chair of the Landsat science team; the Landsat series of satellites provides one of the longest-running and…

Abdi Samatar OpEd: The ANC – 110 Years and What? A Synergistic Approach is Long Overdue

GES welcomes applications for a full-time, 12-month Lecturer position in Geographic Information Science (GIS).

The Warwick Mid-Career Faculty Research Award is a new research award from CLA. Eric Shook’s project A Geospatial Language for Computers has earned him this first ever award.…

Announcement of the winners of the Alumni of Notable Achievement Award as well as the Emerging Alumni Award.