News
Below is an archive of news about Penn State Geography faculty, students, staff, and alumni in descending order by date.
June 4, 2013 - 8:34am
Notes from a field trip by Lakshman Yapa• Download the slideshow to view manually.• Watch the video below.
May 6, 2013 - 1:04pm
Editor's Note Dear Geography Community,
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of
Wilbur Zelinsky, professor emeritus, long-time faculty member in the Department of Geography, and renowned scholar. Wilbur passed peacefully at...
April 29, 2013 - 3:02pm
The
Environmental Law Institute has announced that Robert P. Brooks, a
preeminent wetlands scientist at Penn State, has received the 2013
National Wetlands Award for Science Research. Brooks and six other award
recipients were honored at a ceremony at...
April 29, 2013 - 11:07am
Undergraduate Student Spotlight by Rachel Brown
Time management is often a struggle for most first-year
students. But for Blake Naito, a
freshman from Littleton, Colorado, with a family legacy in geography, it is a strength
that has...
April 29, 2013 - 10:02am
Annual department Recognition Reception held on April 26
Jeff Gockley Memorial Award recipient Katherine Meckler with
the Gockley family.
As the spring semester came to a close, students, faculty, staff,...
March 27, 2013 - 9:54am
More than 60 students (graduate and undergraduate), faculty, and staff from the Department of Geography are presenting at
the AAG annual meeting in Los Angeles, California, April 9 to 13, 2013.
Updated Link to spreadsheet on...
January 24, 2013 - 9:08am
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT SPOTLIGHT by Aimee Culbert
For Jonathan and Sarah Sharp, the drive from their
hometown of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania to Penn State is nothing compared to the
other trips they’ve taken together.
Countless...
January 21, 2013 - 9:22am
by
Lakshman Yapa, Department of Geography, Penn StateEven
though higher income households vote Republican in all regions of the country,
paradoxically, states that vote Republican are overwhelming poor. This is part two of...
January 14, 2013 - 10:36am
by
Lakshman Yapa, Department of Geography, Penn StateEven
though higher income households vote Republican in all regions of the country,
paradoxically, states that vote Republican are overwhelming poor. This is part one of a two-part series...
January 10, 2013 - 3:20pm
by Chelsea Gilliam
and Everleigh Stokes
From left: Shannon
Grumbly, Cynthia Brewer, Chelsea Gilliam, Xinke Cheng, Rachel
Passmore, Mingjie Li, Eric Aspril, Brandon Belajac, Kendra Martz, Shang Liu,
Stacy Nowicki, Yiting Ju,...
January 10, 2013 - 10:55am
Faculty and students in the Department of Geography were busy in 2012, publishing in multiple formats on topics such as health, women and climate change, and mapping innovations. Here is a roundup of books, chapters, articles, and papers that were...
December 20, 2012 - 3:37pm
Marnie Deibler was chosen as this year's recipient of the
2012 College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Circle of Excellence award. The
award was presented at the annual Dean's Staff Appreciation Luncheon on
December 19.
...
December 6, 2012 - 12:05pm
An invasive grass species may be one reason fires are bigger and
more frequent in certain regions of the western United States, according to a team
of researchers.
Researchers used satellite imagery
to identify cheatgrass, a...
December 6, 2012 - 11:31am
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT SPOTLIGHT by Aimee Culbert
For Emily
Connor and Brianna Hammond, two Department of Geography seniors graduating on December 22, exploring the field of geography was not the college
plan they had...
November 29, 2012 - 10:55am
Karl Zimmerer, professor and head of the Department of Geography, received the honor of being chosen as one of six Penn State faculty members named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). New inductees are elected by the...
