We extend our deepest gratitude to all alumni and friends who have given financial support to the Department during the past six decades.
Without these generous contributions, many scholarships, research experiences, and awards would not be available to our students and faculty.
If you would like to make a gift, please send checks, payable to Penn State, to: EMS Development Offïce, 116 Deike Building, University Park, PA 16802, and identify the fund to which you wish to contribute.
For information contact Jodi Vender at (814) 863-5730 or jvender@psu.edu
Gifts may be made to the following funds.
- Balmat Family Scholarship in Geography (SCMBB): To support outstanding undergraduate sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
(Past Recipients)
- Balmat Honors Scholars Fund (XCMBD): To provide monies for the honors program in the department.
- C. Gregory Knight Endowment in Geography (XCMKC): To support research, faculty and student travel, equipment, and lectures.
- 'Coffee Hour to Go' Endowment (XCMCH):
To enable off-campus students in the Department of Geography's distance education programs, and geography alumni, to participate in select Geography Coffee Hour
presentations through interactive Internet communications technologies.
- Department of Geography Enrichment Fund (XCMEH): To promote and support activities of the department including an award to recognize graduate assistants
for outstanding performance as research assistants in the department.
- Erickson Fund in Geography (XCMER): To enrich the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences by providing monies to enhance the academic quality and general welfare of students,
faculty and staff of the department.
- E. Willard Miller Award in Geography (WCMME):
To encourage accomplished written, graphic and/or analytical expression by students as part of their degree program in geography.
(Past Recipients)
- E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Lectureship in Geography (XCMMV): To support lectures by outstanding scholars and professionals in the field of geography who are not current Penn State faculty members or students.
- E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Geography Graduate Student Fund (XCMMY): To encourage graduate study in the department by providing fellowships to outstanding graduate students.
- E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Professorship in Geography (WCMMV): To recognize a full-time faculty member who has excelled in teaching and in research in the area of Physical Geography.
- E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Geography (FCMMR): To provide support for academic excellence for graduate students.
This fellowship shall recruit and recognize outstanding first-year doctoral students who exhibit academic excellence and who plan to enroll in Penn State as a candidate for a graduate degree in the College of EMS.
- G.D. Richardson Scholarship in Geography (SCMRG): To provide recognition and financial assistance to outstanding undergraduate students enrolled in the department.
(Past Recipients)
- Geography Alumni Scholars Award (SCMGS): To honor and recognize undergraduate and graduate students who have outstanding achievements.
(Past Recipients)
- Geography Student Scholarship Award (SCMGY): To support deserving undergraduate students enrolled in the department.
- Glenda Laws Memorial Fund (XCMLG): To provide general support for the Department of Geography.
- James T. Meyer Oustanding Graduate Teaching Award (FCMOG): To recognize graduate assistants for outstanding performance as teaching assistants in the department.
- Jeff Gockley Memorial Award (XCMGJ): To support an undergraduate student in the area of geographic information science.
(Past Recipients)
- Peter R. Gould Memorial Fund (XCMGG): To support the Peter R. Gould Center for Geography Education & Outreach.
- Philadelphia Field Project Fund (XCMGJ): To support the service-learning and public scholarship objectives of the Philadelphia Field Project.
- Robert P. and Rebecca Brooks Endowment for the Cooperative Wetlands Center (XCMBE):
To provide funds to promote and support the mission of the Cooperative Wetlands Center to support field study, faculty and graduate student activities and other activities that take
- Ronald F. Abler Award in Geography (XCMAB): To recognize academic achievement by outstanding undergraduate and graduate students in presenting the results of their research at a scholarly geographical society meeting.
(Past Recipients)
- Ruby S. and E. Willard Miller Professorship in Geography (WCMMW): To recognize a full-time faculty member who has excelled in teaching and in research in the area of Social Geography.
- Ruby S. Miller Endowment for Geographic Excellence (FCMMW):
To improve the quality of the graduate program in the geography department by giving priority to providing financial assistance to graduate students.
- Supporting Women in Geography (S.W.I.G.) Fund (SCMWG): To support the programs and activities of the department's Supporting Women in Geography chapter.
