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Date
May 14, 2025
Time
8:08 pm to 8:08 pm
Description
Supporting Young Women in Geography (SYWIG) is a day where we bring in middle school girls to participate in a variety of activities that reflect the importance, interest, and excitement associated with Geography and communicating science to a young audience through STEM learning activities like OpenStreetMap, island biogeography, bioaccumulation, and world ethnic activities, for example. This event is a wonderful learning opportunity that integrates geography-related concepts through interactive means.
Cost
Free
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Anthony Robinson, assistant professor of geography at Penn State, has been selected to receive a Fulbright grant to teach and conduct research at the University of Salzburg, Austria. Beginning Jan. 2017, Robinson will spend six months working in the Department of Geoinformatics (Z_GIS).
Robinson was awarded a Fulbright for his proposal “Making Maps to Make a Difference: Uncovering Geographic Patterns in Learner Engagement.”
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Like many geography students, Xi Liu has a strong interest in mapping and using geographical data to solve problems. So when he saw an opportunity to work for Google on a project that involved geographical data analysis, he wasted no time in applying.
Liu, a doctoral student in geography, was accepted into a highly competitive software engineering internship program in Google's Seattle office during the summer of 2017, and the experience showed him just how integral geographic data are for the industry giant's products and services.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — For Zongjun Li, a junior majoring in geography at Penn State, the chance to explore real-life opportunities with his degree is what drives him as an undergraduate student.
“It’s important to me to take the knowledge from our textbooks and bring it to life out in the real world,” Li said.
Raised in Guangzhou, China, Li, who is majoring in geographic information science (GIS), has always been fascinated by the applications of the geography major.