Michael Sinanian, a 14-year-old eighth-grader at St. Robert’s Catholic School, can answer those without missing a beat. (South Africa has three capitals — Bloemfontein, Cape Town and Pretoria — while ...

Rocky Frasier sits at the dinner table in his Bay City home, contemplating the name of a specific river in China. He looks toward the ceiling as he ponders. “The Jiang Chang?” he asks. His dad breaks ...

How did Michigan become a defining swing state of the Trump era? Some of it had to do with history, both the state’s 20-year stretch of Democratic wins and the revived conservatism of Detroit’s ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—The American Association of Geographers has given its 2019 Award for Program Excellence to Western Michigan University's Department of Geography. WMU earned the award for its Master ...

Michiganders have a way of showing their hand. They have a technique — a tradition, really — of lifting their right hand and pressing their left index finger into a spot on their palm to give you, the ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Dr. Adam Mathews, an accomplished geography professor and researcher at Western Michigan University, is now also a children’s book author. "ABCs of Geography" by Chris Ferrie and Adam ...