Awards and Achievements
Jennifer Baka was promoted to associate professor with tenure. She also received a National Science Foundation CAREER award to study the development and potential impacts of a petrochemical cracker plant in western Pennsylvania.
Bronwen Powell was promoted to associate professor with tenure.
Andrew Carleton was awarded an E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Professorship in Geography.
Manzhu Yu was named the E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Faculty Fellow by the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Penn State.
Guido Cervone was appointed an American Geophysical Union Local Science Partner. He was also named a faculty affiliate at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, Italy.
Joshua Inwood received the American Association of Geographers Media Achievement Award.
Karl Zimmerer received a Montpellier Advanced Knowledge Institute on Transitions 2022–23 Research Fellowship, France.
Graduate students Nicolle Di Domenico, Emma Robertson, and Tim Prestby received National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships.
Graduate student Ruth Buck received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention.
Graduate students Vivian Rodriguez Rocha and Saumya Vaishnava received Society of Woman Geographers Evelyn L. Pruitt National Fellowships for Dissertation Research.