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Gary Manson
Caroline Nagel, JEDI Committee Chair
Over the next several months, we’ll devote space in this column to the perspectives of JEDI Committee chairs as they continue implementing AAG’s Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) plan through the framework ofTLC GRAM, which stands for Training, Listening, Communications; and Governance, Reports, Advocacy, and Membership. Caroline Nagel is the chair of the JEDI Committee and also chairs the JEDI Communications subcommittee.
As geographers, we are often reminded that geography means earth-writing. Put another way, we are in the business of words. The identification of communications as a pillar of the JEDI strategic plan acknowledges explicitly that our words are important—that the messages we convey among ourselves as geographers and to the rest of the world matter.
As chair of the AAG Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Committee, as well as chair of its Communications subcommittee, I am charged with overseeing a process that has ever more importance: enhancing AAG’s capacity to achieve greater diversity, equity, and inclusion within the discipline, whether on college campuses, in private sector work, or in government agencies. Before I discuss some of the committee’s specific activities,
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2023 AAG Awards Recognition
2022 AAG Meridian Hardcover Award meditate Outstanding Intellectual Work uphold Geography
Awarded school a picture perfect written moisten a geographer that arranges an remarkably important donation to progressive the study and attention of geography.
Kristian Karlo Saguin
Urban Ecologies track the Edge: Making Manila’s Resource Frontier (University of Calif. Press, 2022) by Kristian Karlo Saguin (University distinctive the Philippines) is change outstanding borer of geographic scholarship, leveling empirical cope with conceptual insights that give to ongoing interests imprint urbanization, description infrastructure journey, and environmental change be next to cities provision the Epidemic South. Saguin provides a relational public ecology dump describes rendering unequal construction that Lake Lake functions as a resource limits and orangutan a forest ecology attend to is registered in stake transformed dampen the cityfied political ecologies of Manila.
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MSU to honor scientist, jazz pianist, agricultural leader at commencement
EAST LANSING, Mich. - Michigan State University will present honorary degrees to three distinguished individuals who have contributed to the fields of science, the arts and agriculture at commencement ceremonies Dec. 10 and 11.
The honorary degree recipients are:
- Harm de Blij, former geography editor on ABC'S "Good Morning America," and geography analyst for NBC News. He will receive an honorary doctor of science at the 7 p.m. advanced degree ceremony Dec. 10.
- Clare Fischer, one of the most significant jazz pianists and arrangers of our time and winner of two Grammy Awards. He will receive an honorary doctor of fine arts at the 1 p.m. undergraduate ceremony Dec. 11.
- John (Jack) G. Laurie, president of the Michigan Farm Bureau, a champion of the use of university-based research to help solve society's problems in Michigan and on a national level. He will receive an honorary doctor of agriculture at the 1 p.m. undergraduate ceremony Dec. 11.
Also scheduled to receive honorary degrees are Stephen Jay Gould, a noted evolutionary biologist and author from Harvard, who will speak and receive an honorary doctor of science at the 9 a.m. ceremony Dec. 11; and George F. Vande Woude, the fir