Browsing UW Geography Undergraduate Colloquium by Issue Date
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Home and Identity
(2013-12)Understanding our homes is essential to understanding ourselves, for our homes influence and are influenced by our identities. Though we often equate our home with our house, in the majority of cases, people describe home ... -
Madison State of Mind: Demographics and Urban Form on State Street
(2013-12)The 500 block of State Street, in downtown Madison, Wisconsin, is currently undergoing a radical landscape change through the construction of a new high rise apartment complex called ?The Hub?. This study seeks to discover ... -
Food Deserts: Evaluating Grocery Stores and Bus Accessibility using GIS in Madison, Wisconsin
(2013-12)A major challenge facing low-income neighborhoods is the growing presence of food deserts. Food deserts are caused by lack of availability of healthy food and poor public transit systems. In order to assess food deserts ... -
Madison's Urban Fire Regime
(2013-12)This research looks at documented major fire incidents from 1855 to the present day, Madison, Wisconsin. It draws mostly upon primary sources including fire marshall reports, newspaper articles, and interviews from first ... -
Stances with Wolves: The Story of Ojibwe Opposition to Wisconsin?s Wolf Hunt and the Proposed Use of Buffer Zones as a Geographic Solution
(2013-12)Upon its establishment in 2012, the wolf hunt forged a divide between the state of Wisconsin and its sovereign Ojibwe nations. The purpose of this research is to explore the history of cultural, political, and scientific ... -
Divided Digitally: Literacy in the 21st Century
(2013-12)Socioeconomic inequalities receive much attention in academic literature, but scholars are just beginning to grasp what may amount to one of the most significant disparities of the 21st century: that of technological ... -
Trends in Tonnage: A Century of Lake Superior Shipping
(2013-12-12)Over the past century, Lake Superior shipping has varied immensely. The product of our research is a dynamic cartographic visualization that presents tonnage, population, and historical data for seven Lake Superior ports ... -
Beneath the Surface: Urban Fishing and Environmental Justice
(2013-12-12)Urban fishing and shoreline fishing are popular year round activities that have received little attention in research and literature. We specifically looked at Monona Bay and Lake Wingra in Madison to examine the various ... -
Ladies of Langdon: the Safety and the Perception of Gendered Spaces
(2013-12-12)A popular downtown residential neighborhood in Madison, WI, Langdon Street is home to many of the University of Wisconsin's fraternity and sorority houses. This article examines how women's experiences on Langdon Street, ... -
Evaluating Madison From Two Wheels
(2013-12-17)Bicycling is not only a childish pastime, but also an activity that can help the environment, both built and natural, while promoting equality and community among its residents. This study determines the bike-friendliness ... -
Food Waste to Energy: Community Responses and the Potential for Anaerobic Digestion in Madison
(2014-12)Over-consumption coupled with limited landfill capacity necessitates consideration of alternative waste management strategies, such as anaerobic digestion of organic waste. We investigate the potential of anaerobic digestion ... -
Community Responses to Water Quality Decline in the Lake Mendota Watershed
(2014-12)Land use and land cover (LULC) are critical factors in determining the water quality of surrounding water bodies. Although the mechanisms are different, both urban and agricultural LULC increase the quantity of runoff ... -
A Landscape of Student Experience
(2014-12)Students at the University of Wisconsin create meaningful places through their own experiences across the UW campus and Madison downtown. As students bring meaning to different campus spaces, campus spaces in turn, help ... -
UW Madison Student's Knowledge and Perceptions of Global Conflicts
(2014-12)The purpose of this study was to determine whether students' demographic and personal characteristics affect their knowledge, opinions, and perceptions of global violent conflicts. A total of 144 students participated in ... -
Environmental Justice of Public Park Amenities and Accessibility in Madison, WI
(2014-12)This case study examines the relationship between demographics, park accessibility, and the quality of park amenities in Madison, Wisconsin. We use both quantitative and qualitative data seeking to answer the research ... -
Microbreweries and Place Marketing -? Madison, WI
(2014-12)Microbreweries have established themselves as providers of unique, high-quality beer in what has become a flourishing niche in the beer market. Over the course of recent decades they have set themselves apart from the mass ... -
Selling Terroir: A Geographical Analysis of the South-Central Wisconsin Wine Market
(2014-12)With increasing sales, an expanding number of wineries, and a growing consumer base, wine in Wisconsin is growing in popularity and importance. In an effort to better understand this burgeoning industry, this research aims ... -
Beyond the Frame: An Analysis of Museums as Therapeutic Spaces for Persons with Alzheimer?s Disease
(2014-12)The average lifespan of a person in the United States is increasing, along with population. This has a direct effect on the number of persons with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. Since Alzheimer's disease currently ... -
Street Lighting and Crime in Madison, WI
(2014-12)Much academic literature exists which suggests street lighting acts to deter crime. This analysis offers a GIS approach to the spatial relationships between person-on-person and person-on-property crime with street lighting ... -
Online Communities: Interactions and PlaceMaking in a Virtual Environment
(2014-12)We are studying placemaking online and how and why people participate in these communities. In our literature review we focus on the unique aspects of virtual space such as the varying degrees of anonymity, the disjoint ...