In spite of icy roads and rainy weather last Wednesday, December 9, our department’s kick-off event for re-initiating “brown bag” gatherings drew a roomful of geography students and professors. As an incentive to take a break from end of semester projects, the Geography Graduate Society funded a luncheon of sandwiches and pizza and invited Professors Kyem and Button to share slides from their recent group trip to Iceland.
The tone was distinctly geographic—and photos of dramatic landscapes of geysers, scarps and new volcanic soils drew appreciative remarks. There was also the occasional wry comment -- as when one slide appeared sideways (with a vertical horizon) and a student was heard to utter in solemn tones, “It really is the edge of the world.”
The Geography Graduate Society (GGS) has plans to organize several more brown bag events in the spring semester –with dates and slide themes to be announced at the start of the semester. The only difference in those events, says an anonymous source, is that people will really have to bring-their-own lunch (in true brown-bag tradition).
[Above Photo: In front row from left--Steven Birney, Melissa Pierce, Phil Pierdomenico, Steven Cosgrove. In the second row, third from the left is Dr. Xiaoping Shen, Department Chair. ]
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