Geography Department
IU Bloomington selects faculty members each year with distinguished leadership ability to participate in the Academic Leadership Program (ALP), sponsored by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation. This year's ALP Fellows are Joyce Alexander, Martin McCrory, Jane McLeod and Sara C. Pryor.
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Indiana University Bloomington atmospheric scientist Rebecca Barthelmie has been honored for her wind energy research by the European Academy of Wind Energy. Barthelmie, a professor of atmospheric science and sustainability, accepted the EAWE's Academy Scientific Award for 2009 at the European Wind Energy Association annual conference and exhibition in Marseille, France, on March 16.
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Recipients of the Outstanding Junior Faculty Award at Indiana University Bloomington this year are Candy Gunther Brown in the Department of Religious Studies, Tony H. Grubesic in Department of Geography, Scott Michaels in the Department of Biology, Ethan Michelson in the Departments of Sociology and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Sima Setayeshgar in the Department of Physics, and Chen Yu in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.
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Southern Indiana's rolling hills are greener now than they were a century ago, but the region's rate of reforestation may be on the verge of being outpaced by suburban sprawl's deforestation, according to a new report by Indiana University Bloomington and University of Minnesota researchers in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Former U.S. Rep. Lee H. Hamilton will speak at Indiana University Bloomington for a course on science and public policy. The talk, which is open to the public, will be at 3:15 p.m. on Sept. 26 in the Oak Room of the Indiana Memorial Union.
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Wal-Mart is Mexico's most important retailer and largest private employer, and it has transformed Mexican business practices, consumption patterns and supply chains. However, Wal-Mart has been unable to transfer its success in Mexico to other countries where it does not have the same advantages over its competitors. The "Walmartization" of Mexico has had a significant impact on the country's small-scale agricultural producers, and many local farmers have been excluded from the new system of food retailing. James Biles, a specialist in economic geography, is studying the consequences of these changes.
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