- Quality Teaching and Quality Students
Quality Teaching and Quality Students
The Department has always emphasized quality undergraduate teaching, from air photo interpretation in the laboratory in the 1950s to studying glacial geomorphology in the field in Grand Teton National Park in 2002.
Benefiting from this instruction, scores of students went on to complete Master's degrees in geography or planning at schools like the University of Chicago, Clark University, the University of Illinois, Western Michigan University, Indiana State University, Ball State University, and Oklahoma State University.
In addition, more than two dozen VU graduates since 1948 have completed a Ph. D. in geography. As the list below indicates, these students attended some of the top programs and went on to be important contributors to the discipline.
Melvin E. Hecht, University of Arizona (VU '48)
Ph.D. University of Kansas, 1962Herbert L. Gaede, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (VU '50)
Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1959John W. Kunstmann, Bowling Green State University (VU '54)
Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1964David E. Snyder, Overseas Educational Services (VU '54)
Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1959Karl A. Robert, Elmhurst College (VU '57)
Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1965Daniel W. Gade, University of Vermont (VU '59)
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1967Wayne E. Kiefer, Central Michigan University (VU '60)
Ph.D. Indiana University, 1967Eldor C. Quandt, Western Michigan University (VU '61)
Ph.D. Michigan State University, 1971Jerry C. Towle, California State University, Fresno (VU '61)
Ph.D. University of Oregon, 1974Robert Douglas, Gustavus Adolphus College (VU '64)
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1974Howard G. Johnson, Jacksonville State University (VU '65)
Ph.D. Michigan State University, 1972Harold J. Moellering, Ohio State University (VU '65)
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1973Alice T.M. Rechlin Perkins, Valparaiso University (VU '65)
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1970Thomas C. Kind, Murray State University (VU '66)
Ph.D., Indiana State University, 1976Gordon E. Matzke, Oregon State University (VU '66)
Ph.D. Syracuse University, 1975Frederick P. Stutz, San Diego State University (VU '66)
Ph.D. Michigan State University, 1970Henry W. Bullamore, Frostburg State University (VU '71)
Thomas J. Baerwald, National Science Foundation (VU '72)
Ph.D. University of Iowa, 1978
Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 1978Gregory S. Rose, The Ohio State University at Marion (VU '75)
Ph.D. Michigan State University, 1981Gail Sechrist, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (VU '77)
Ph.D. Louisiana State University, 1986Mark J. Bouman, Chicago State University (VU '78)
Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 1984Aileen R. Buckley, ESRI Inc. (VU '82)
Ph.D. Oregon State University, 1997Jon T. Kilpinen, Valparaiso University (VU '88)
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, 1994John Kupfer, University of Arizona (VU '88)
Ph.D. University of Iowa, 1995Patricia J. Beyer, Bloomsburg University (VU '90)
Ph.D. Arizona State University, 1997Jason Janke, University of Southern Mississippi (VU '97)
Ph.D. University of Colorado at Boulder, 2004< Faculty | Home | The "Geomorph" >