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Professor Thomas Groleau Professor Thomas GroleauProfessor Thomas Groleau, chair of the Management and Marketing Department, and Julio Rivera, Yersin professor of applied analytics at Carroll University, recently published a paper, “Student and faculty transformations from teaching wicked geography problems: a journey of transdisciplinary teaching between business and geography,” in the Journal of Geography in Higher Education.

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The paper explores the dissolution of academic silos between geography and business faculty who formed a teaching partnership to explore similar course goals across a range of data-oriented questions. This work led to changes in teaching methods and the development of Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURES). Many of these projects resulted in student presentations at external conferences. 

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