Check here for what happened at the Grosvenor Center during 2025!
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During the fall 2025 semester, Licia Paulus graduated with a Ph.D. in Geographic Education. Her advisor was Dr. Michael Solem.
Joann and Stacie both provide public testimony at the Board of Education general meeting speaking on behalf of geography during the social studies standards revision process. Their public testimony begins at 6:44:20
For Geography Awareness Week, Dr. Zadrozny was interviewed to explain the importance of geography in our daily lives, and is featured as one of the University's “Faculty Experts”.
This year in Frisco, the Texas Council for the Social Studies (TXCSS) annual conference was held. The Texas Alliance sponsored the Geography Strand and it was filled with dozens of great geography teaching ideas!
The 2025 Val Wilkie Jr. Award or Excellence in Teaching Geography award winner, Justin Whalin, was presented with his award at the TXCSS awards ceremony. Presented by Stacie Aguirre.
Texas State was well represented at the National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE) annual conference held October 16 - 19 in Omaha, Nebraska.
Ph.D. alum Lisa Elikan won the Salvatore J. Natoli Dissertation Award.
Presentations by Drs. Zadrozny, Jo and Giordano were given during the conference.
On September 24th, Dr. Boehm was commemorated with a room dedication for his 55 years of service to Texas State University. ELA Room 142, is now the Richard G. Boehm Conference Room. A celebration was held afterwards.
Here are some photos from the event.
We celebrate the remarkable 55+ year career of Dr. Richard G. Boehm, whose dedication, scholarship, and leadership have left a lasting impact on the field of geography education. He has inspired countless students, educators, and colleagues in Texas and nationally.
Dr. Zadrozny and Stacie Aguirre provided professional development on Powerful Geography virtually for Texas Alliance teachers on July 10th and traveled to Lubbock to provide a workshop for teachers at Education Service Center Region 17 on July 15, 2025.
We congratulate the first group of students to graduate from our Online PhD Program. They include from left to right: Samantha Serrano, Skylar Slaughter-Murphy, Jan Rueschhoff, Lisa Elikan, & Kelly Nolan, capped by their advisors Drs. Injeong Jo & Michael Solem.
The fourth recipient of the Val Wilkie Jr. Award or Excellence in Teaching Geography award was Justin Whalin, a world geography teacher at Frontier Stem Academy.
We collaborated with the South Asia Institute at UT Austin on a teaching unit focused on Solutions for South Asia. The unit explores the region through solutions that are being developed to face the challenges and issues. Expert speaker: Samira Bashar - talked environmental planning in Bangladesh.
We collaborated with LLILAS on Powerful Geography to develop a teaching unit focused on bamboo in Latin America. The unit includes lessons focused on the topics of agriculture, sustainability, and ecotourism. Expert speaker: Dr. Ximena Londoño de la Pava.
