All Michigan cities share the same structural challenges. Pitting them against one another is pointless considering the decades of economic disinvestment, social struggle, & infrastructural failings. The article has many contradictions and outright lies… & tacos in Lansing rock?

A final thought re that controversial Detroit Free Press op-ed: when people call a place (however flawed) home, it feels personal when an outsider makes public, ill-informed negative critiques. To write a column that argues to take the main economic core from a city is cruel and tone deaf.

my students voted on their favorite presentations/infographics but it looks like we ranked diseases 🤨

First dissertation paper is out! Older adults adapted their pre-pandemic spatial routines to their home, but many felt the intangible aspects of place could not be replaced by ICT equivalents. Spatial agency supports mental health: doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmq…

Happy Meet the Faculty Friday! This week, we're featuring Assistant Professor Amber DeJohn, Ph.D.

Latest paper frm our Economic and Social Research Council funded CRESH 'lifecourse of place' study exploring how places through our lives affect healthy ageing gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=E… Here in molecularpsychiatry we use The Lothian Birth Cohorts brain imaging data to show area-level disadvantage affects brain morphology👇

Is health geography your specialty? 🏥🌎 From health and wellbeing to epidemiology, the AAG Health Geography Specialty Group promotes geography in related disciplines and advocates its applications to agencies and the public around the world. bit.ly/4dLzFPV

Back after a few years and excited to break the silence with our latest research! We (Christopher Uejio) dive into the extent to which, and for whom, differential privacy skews life expectancy estimates for census tracts in Florida. Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/A…

It’s TIME!!! The most wonderful time of the year is here 🤩 No, we’re not talking about Christmas... It’s Geography Awareness Week! How do you plan on celebrating? Find out how you can be part of #GeoWeek & GIS Day with resources and ways to get involved: bit.ly/4fuX0Wu

Please consider applying for our Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Human-Environment Interactions <jobs.aag.org/jobs/view/tenu…> Applications due January 6th, 2025

Join the Department of Geography for our next colloquium on Friday, December 6, at 3:30 p.m. in Bellamy 114. Dr. Xiaojiang Li will give a talk titled "Geospatial Data Science for Urban Environmental Sustainability." Learn more: calendar.fsu.edu/event/geograph…

After almost 2 years, finally this global health project is on BMJ Global Health Although #Covid is gone for several years, we collected vaccine sites during the pandemic in 54 countries/regions and looked into their accessibility, including LMICs and HICs

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The Department of Geography will hold its monthly colloquium on Friday, September 5th, at 3:30 p.m. in Bellamy 150E. This event will be followed by a social hour at Proof at the FSU Student Union. To learn more, click here: 🔗calendar.fsu.edu/event/geograph…

New co-authored article exploring accessibility to public and private long term care facilities in Hong Kong: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…