Maxwell School News and Commentary
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Connections and Content: Reflections on Networks and the History of Cartography
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Sultana discusses the universal right to water on Princeton Environmental Institute podcast
"We need to democratize how water is managed and governed," says Farhana Sultana, associate professor of geography. "So that all voices are heard and much more ethical practices around water are pursued." Sultana was recently a guest on Princeton Environmental Institute's All for Earth podcast. Fundamentally, we need to "ensure that principles of equity collaboration and inclusivity are central to all of this," she adds. "Because we need to really have a better understanding of how water is very much a moral issue. And as a result that will help us think about much better transformations that are equitable and inclusive. In order to fight for water justice for all."
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Monmonier quoted in Guardian article on the tradition of cartography
"To present a useful and truthful picture, an accurate map must tell white lies," says Mark Monmonier, Distinguished Professor of Geography.
See related: Cartography, United States
Monmonier weighs in on Trump's NOAA map manipulation in CityLab
"It’s probably indicative of the special respect for maps, that he [President Trump] thought that his alteration of this map would take precedence over the facts that were already printed on it," says Distinguished Professor of Geography Mark Monmonier. "We need to be ever more vigilant of the way in which maps might be altered, disrespected, or suppressed."
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Maxwell announces new faculty members, department chair
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A Bachelor’s in Maxwell
This is a boom time for undergraduates at the Maxwell School—new majors, expanded research programs, diverse experiential opportunities, enhanced advising, and more. It all builds on a tradition of undergraduate education that goes back to Maxwell’s beginning. There has never not been a “Maxwell undergrad.”
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Worthy Endeavors
As undergraduate programs have become more visible, Maxwell donors—many of them alumni of the undergraduate majors themselves—have grown more eager to support those programs.
See related: Centennial, Giving
Hammond explores architectural interventions in Taksim Square Istanbul