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Measures
of Quality for Ohio State's Department of Geography |
- In the 1995
National Research Council report on research-doctorate
graduate programs in the United States, OSU Geography was
ranked 5th highest in the nation in terms of reputation
(with 77% of the evaluators rating the department as "distinguished"
or "strong"), and 4th in terms of program effectiveness.
- This latest assessment follows over two decades of consistently
high national rankings.
- External support currently totals approximately $3.5 million,
from a variety of sources that include the following: Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), National Aeronautic
and Space Administration (NASA), National Geographic Society
(NGS), National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA), National Science Foundation (NSF), Ohio Board of
Regents, and United States Department of Agriculture.
- Five of OSU Geography's current and emeritus faculty (Larry Brown,
Emilio Casetti,
Kevin Cox,
Duane
Marble,
John Rayner) have received Honors Awards from
the Association of American Geographers (that organization's
most significant recognition), more than any other Department
of Geography in North America.
- Both Larry
Brown and
Kevin Cox
have received the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.
- Four of our current and emeritus faculty (Larry Brown,
Emilio
Casetti, Kevin Cox,
Ellen-Mosely-Thompson)
have received Ohio State University Distinguished Scholar
Awards.
- Five current faculty have been awarded Ohio State University
Distinguished Teaching Awards (Bill Ackerman,
Larry
Brown,
Jay
Hobgood,
Randy
Smith,
Paul
Robbins).
- Randy
Smith has received the first Faculty Award for
Distinguished University Service at Ohio State.
-
Kevin Cox and
Larry
Brown have been named University Distinguished Professor,
the highest recognition for faculty at Ohio State.
-
Ed Malecki
was selected as a 2003 Joan N. Huber Faculty Fellow by
the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, its highest
recognition for scholarship.
- Harold
Moellering is a recipient of the John Wesley Powell
Award, awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey. He was also
elected an Honorary Fellow at the International Cartographic
Association in 2003.
- Morton O'Kelly,
Mei-Po
Kwan,
Ed Malecki and
Harold Moellering
have been recognized as Ameritech Fellows.
- Ellen
Mosley-Thompson was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall
of Fame in October 2003.
- Five faculty are or have been recently Chairs or members
of National Academy of Sciences Committees (Ellen Mosley-Thompson,
Harold Moellering,
David
Bromwich,
Joel Morrison,
Ed
Malecki), and eleven are or have been recently on National
Science Foundation Panels (Larry Brown,
Emilio Casetti,
Nancy Ettlinger,
Mei-Po
Kwan,
Ed
Malecki,
Duane Marble,
Harold Moellering,
Ellen Mosley-Thompson,
Morton O'Kelly,
David
Bromwich,
Joel Morrison)
and the National Institutes of Health, Social Science and
Population Panel (Larry Brown).
- Ten faculty members are on the editorial boards of 19
international journals and the internationally recognized
journal
Geographical Analysis
was founded in the department, is currently edited by
Alan Murray and is published by The Ohio State University Press.
- Twenty-nine Ph.D.s were awarded in the period from academic
year 1999-2000 to 2003-2004. OSU Geography and Atmospheric
Science degrees have proven extremely competitive in obtaining
appointments at major universities in the United States
and in other countries.
- Many graduates of the department have achieved positions
as Chairs of Departments of Geography or related units.
- Other destinations for graduates of the department include
consulting positions (e.g. SMART, Washington, DC),
prestigious research organizations (e.g. NASA Goddard
Space Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ERDAS), the
private sector (e.g. Nationwide Insurance, Bank One,
ESRI, AEP, MAPINFO, Ameritech) and governmental bodies (e.g.
National Weather Service, US Air Force, FBI).
- Approximately 80 graduate students are currently
in residence, of whom the majority are supported by funding.
- Citation Analysis for Human Geography places one of our
former students (John Agnew) and four of our current and
emeritus faculty (Larry Brown,
Emilio Casetti,
Kevin Cox,
Ed Malecki) among the fifty most cited human geographers
in the world.
- The Department has a strong commitment to teaching. This
includes outreach at the public school level through the
Ohio Geographic Alliance
(which has its home at Ohio State), and participation by
nearly all faculty in University service-level courses.
- There are approximately 220 undergraduate student majors.
The Gourman Report (A Rating of Undergraduate Programs
in American & International Universities) rates
OSU's undergraduate program as 5th in the nation, with a
score of 4.75/5.
-
Linda
Bryant, the Department's Administrative Associate, has
been awarded a University Distinguished Staff Award.
- See the Department featured in the OSU Faculty and Staff
Newspaper,
OnCampus.
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