September 22, 2014

Bertolas presents geography seminar Sept. 26

Randy Bertolas, professor of geography at Wayne State College, will present “Geography Education: Why Now More Than Ever” at 2 p.m. Sept. 26 in Hardin Hall, Room 228.

The seminar is free and open to the public.

Bertolas was born and raised in the perpetually frozen North Woods just south of International Falls, Minnesota. He attended the University of Minnesota-Duluth and was studying geography in his dorm room the night the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior Nov. 10, 1975.

Subsequently, he earned his graduate degrees in geography from the University of Vermont and from the State University of New York at Buffalo.