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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 228 Hardin Hall. 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 on Nov. 10, 1975. Subsequently, he earned graduate degrees in Geography from the University of Vermont in 1982 and from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1995.