{"id":4505,"date":"2016-04-18T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=4505"},"modified":"2019-06-04T16:21:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T21:21:44","slug":"geography-and-crime-subject-of-talk-april-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2016\/04\/18\/geography-and-crime-subject-of-talk-april-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Geography and crime subject of talk April 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4506\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/04\/Ericson.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4506\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/04\/Ericson-150x150.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-4506 size-thumbnail\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/04\/Ericson-66x66.jpg 66w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/04\/Ericson-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/04\/Ericson-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/04\/Ericson.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Steven Ericson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The use of geography and mapping to study and solve crime will be the focus of the next talk in the Interdisciplinary Nature of Geography Speaker Series at Missouri Western State University. Dr. Steven Ericson, lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Alabama, will speak on \u201cTheoretical and Practical Applications of GIS [geographic information systems] in Crime Research\u201d at noon Friday, April 22, in Spratt Hall, room 201.<\/p>\n<p>The talk is free and open to the public. Attendees may bring their lunch to hear the speaker.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker series is sponsored by Missouri Western\u2019s Department of History and Geography and the MWSU Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><em>Missouri Western State University is a comprehensive regional university providing a blend of traditional liberal arts and professional degree programs. The university offers student-centered, high quality instruction that focuses on experience-based learning, community service, and state-of-the-art technology. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\">www.missouriwestern.edu<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The use of geography and mapping to study and solve crime will be the focus of the next talk in the Interdisciplinary Nature of Geography Speaker Series at Missouri Western State University. Dr. Steven Ericson, lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Alabama, will speak on \u201cTheoretical and Practical Applications of GIS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,22,78,43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8631,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions\/8631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}