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DUTTON INSTITUTE
Penn State's online Master of GIS has received a national honor. More

NEW FACULTY
Krzysztof Janowicz will join the geography department as an assistant professor of geographic information sciences.

COFFEE HOUR
Justine Blanford, a research associate in the department of geography's GeoVISTA Center, will discuss using GIS to visualize disease dynamics during Coffee Hour at 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20, in 112 Walker.
Watch the talk online here
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spacer GISCIENCE FACULTY
Assistant professor Alexander Klippel is the recipient of two NSF grants. One will study geographic-scale movement patterns and the other will study spatial awareness through navigation devices. Read more.

FALL 2009 OFFICE HOURS
Instructor office hours
T.A. office hours

NEW GRADS
Meet the incoming graduate students of the Class of 2009-2010 here.

TSCHAKERT, SWITHWICK AWARDED GRANT
Geography assistant professors Petra Tschakert and Erica Smithwick received an NSF grant to study buruli ulcer in Ghana. Read the story here.

IN THE NEWS: Links to Penn State geography people in the local and national news media Updated 11/12/09




 

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