This week’s featured woman in STEM is Dr. Judith Meyer. She is a historical geographer who researches national parks.
“I study the sense of place: the meanings people give to the landscape and how those meanings influence our attitudes toward particular places, especially in terms of how we manage them,” said Meyer, geography program coordinator in the department of geography, geology and planning. “Why do we fight over Jerusalem? Is the Ozarks part of the Yankee North or the Dixie South?
“Understanding the sense of place is important in making thoughtful and effective land-use decisions.”
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