Department of Geography

Natalie Oswin, associate professor in the Department of Human Geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough, will give the talk, “Capital contradictions in the age of incorporation: queer and trans materialism at work."

The Penn State Department of Geography, in collaboration with The Arboretum at Penn State and the Indigenous Peoples’ Student Association (IPSA), will host a special "Coffee Hour" lecture on Friday, Sept. 27, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Arboretum’s Overlook Pavilion.

Alan Taylor, a recently retired and now professor emeritus of geography, spent decades researching West Coast landscape and fire ecology. He used ecological signals and human history to paint a picture of how forests changed over time.

The 2024 fall series will showcase the work of retired faculty members, iincluding Andrew Carleton, Bill Easterling. Lectures will take place at Foster Auditorium in the Pattee-Paterno Library.

IEE has welcomed two new researchers including Mark Ortiz, assistant professor of geography, They will also work with Penn State Climate Consortium.

The Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) is welcoming nine new co-funded faculty members to Penn State. By helping to support co-funded faculty members, SSRI also supports interdisciplinary research within the social and behavioral sciences.

Seventeen graduate students from Penn State have been awarded research fellowships and six undergraduate students from the commonwealth have been awarded scholarships for 2024 from the Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium (PSGC).

The Penn State Department of Geography will kick off its fall 2024 "Coffee Hour" lecture series with a talk by Karl Zimmerer, professor of geography, ecology, and rural sociology at Penn State.

Mahsa Bahrami, a doctoral student in Penn State’s Department of Geography, has been awarded a NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) grant to fund her research on meltwater lakes at the surface of the Antarctic ice sheet.