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Matthew Shumway to present BYU devotional Jan. 20

Matthew Shumway, a Brigham Young University geography professor, will present a campus devotional, “Our Journey Through Mortality,” Tuesday, Jan. 20, at 11:05 a.m. in the Marriott Center.

The devotional will be presented live on BYU Television, KBYU-TV, KBYU-FM and byubroadcasting.org. Visit byub.org/devotionals or speeches.byu.edu for rebroadcast and archive information.

Shumway joined the BYU faculty in 1991 and has served for the past nine years as department chair. He teaches courses in population, economic geography and research methods. His research interests include causes and effects of internal migration, as well as demographic and economic restructuring of rural areas.

He received a bachelor’s degree in international relations and a master’s degree in geography from BYU, and a doctoral degree in geography from Indiana University.

For more information, contact Shumway at (801) 422-2707.

Writer: Angela Fischer

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Photo by Mark A. Philbrick/BYU Photo

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