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Join us at the Penn State Department of Geography Alumni and Friends Reception during the AAG Annual Meeting in New Orleans.
Throughout the academic year, our faculty, students, staff, alumni, and friends have contributed significantly to our department, community, and society. To extend our appreciation, we will recognize the accomplishments of our community during this important annual event.
The department's Miller Lecture Series is designed to bring eminent geographers to Penn State and is a gift to the Department of Geography from the late E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller. E. W. Miller was a Professor of Geography, department head, and associate dean emeritus in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.
The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Connection (UROC) offers research and professional development opportunities in the Department of Geography. Students who participated in UROC during spring semester 2018 will present short talks on their research and experiences in the program.
Note: This talk is available live and in-person only. There will be no webcast and no recording.
Advising is a priority in the Department of Geography. Undergraduate majors receive assistance from both a professional staff adviser and an assigned faculty adviser. Students are strongly encouraged to be active participants in our geography community through co-curricular organizations, research, and department-sponsored speakers and events.
We call it ‘Happy Valley’ because it’s just that — a happy place to be. Our department and college have the feel of a close-knit community while at the same time offers the opportunities of a powerful research university. This provides a sense of community and belonging. We would love to have you visit us to learn more about what we have to offer.
Individual visits can be scheduled by contacting the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS) Ryan Family Student Center at 814-863-2751 or by submitting the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' Campus Visit Form.
College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' Campus Visit Form
If you are interested in visiting us to learn more about our resident graduate program in geography, please email our graduate program coordinator to set up a visit schedule. In your email, please let us know your specific areas of interest so that we can better plan your visit schedule.
MacKenzie Goss
Graduate Program Coordinator
mng5361@psu.edu
814-865-3434 or grad@geog.psu.edu
Jodi Vender
814-863-5730 or alumni@geog.psu.edu
These visits are scheduled through the University's Undergraduate Admissions Office. You can schedule your visit from on their website.
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Penn State Schreyer Scholar Doran Tucker has been interested in medieval armor since before he started college, so much so that he has made his own chain mail.
The Penn State geography and international politics major considered making some armor to fulfill a general education course requirement but decided to research and write about it instead.
Dan Steiner knows a thing or two about assessing terrain, gathering knowledge sources and weighing human interactions — all things required in the field of geospatial intelligence — on the fly.
The West Point graduate who served for seven years in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, including leading an engineering company in combat during Operation Desert Storm, spent his life using these skills, first in the military, then for a pharmaceutical company, and currently for Orion Mapping, a geospatial intelligence business he founded three years ago.
Andrew Patterson, a geography major, never thought he would be able to study abroad.
“When I was a sophomore,” Patterson said, “I switched majors from environmental systems engineering to geography, and so I really didn’t think I would have the ability to study abroad and also graduate in four years.”
In the fall of 2016, Patterson received an email from his adviser, Jodi Vender, containing information about a summer study abroad program in Tanzania.
“After looking at my schedule, it was the perfect fit for me,” Patterson said.
