The Department of Geography at Michigan State University is one of 11 degree-granting units in the College of Social Science. Housed in the Geography Building, the Department has over 30 faculty, 50 graduate students, 80 undergraduate majors, and 130 undergraduate minors. Faculty and student research centers on such topics as people-environment relationships, climate, geographic information science, soils-geomorphology, urban structure, and global change. The spatial extent of these research interests range from local to global in such places as Kenya, Brazil, the Great Lakes, China, and Michigan.