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Geography: Facilities, Associations, & Activities

GAMMA THETA UPSILON is an international honor society in geography. Members of GTU have met academic requirements and share a background and interest in geography. The GTU chapter at University of Central Arkansas supports geography knowledge and awareness. Initiates to GTU must complete a minimum of three geographic courses, have a B average in geography, must rank in the upper 35% of their class and must have completed at least three semesters of college course work. Interested students can contact Dr. Allender at (501) 450-5641 or JEFFA@uca.edu.

GEOGRAPHY CLUB
The Geography Club is open to any interested UCA student. This club is active in outside activities including: caving, canoeing, camping, and backpacking. As a service to the community, the Geography Club has been involved in painting large maps of the United States in elementary schoolyards in Conway. Interested students can contact Dr. Allender at (501) 450-5641 or JEFFA@uca.edu..

SOCIAL SCIENCE LABORATORY
A significant component of the Geography Program is the Social Science Laboratory located in Irby 213. Currently the lab contains 30 Dell Pentium IV workstations, one black-and-white and one color laser printer, a large format HP DesignJet printer; cartographic/GIS/remote sensing software including the full ESRI ArcGIS suite, ArcView 3.X, and Idrisi; Microsoft Office XP, and high-speed Internet access. Three Trimble GeoExplorer Global Positioning System receivers and associated software (Pathfinder Office) are also in use in the lab, and spatial data abounds.

Students enrolled in Cartography, Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Techniques, Geographic Information Systems, Geographic Information Analysis, the GIS Certificate program, 3307 and 3309 (GIS applications in Business/Social Science and Environmental Studies) or other courses in of the Geography Program, or pursuing the GIS minor--as well as those in any discipline who wish to use the programs for their own work--can obtain lab privileges, which differ from regular student privileges within the lab environment (use of color printer and plotter, storage space and access to special geographic data). Any students, faculty, or other interested groups wishing to tour the lab can contact Dr. Brooks Green at (501) 450-5636 (BROOKSG@uca.edu) or Mary Sue Passe-Smith (MARYSUEP@uca.edu) 450-3280 (Irby 314).