Department of Geography | Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences

The April Climate Conversations Café will welcome Brianna Craft, a climate justice researcher and author, for a presentation called "Storytelling for Climate Justice."

The April Climate Conversations Café will host Brianna Craft, a climate justice researcher and author, for a discussion on diplomacy,

Richard B. Alley will present at the Department of Geography's Coffee Hour lecture series at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, April 4

The Penn State Department of Geography will continue its spring 2025 Coffee Hour lecture series with a talk by Richard B. Alley, Evan Pugh University Professor in the Department of Geosciences and the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State. Alley’s talk, "Sea-Level Rise from Ice Sheets: How Bad Could It Be?" will examine the uncertainties surrounding sea-level rise and the scientific challenges of predicting future ice-sheet behavior.

Three maps showing the spatial variation of the prevalence of undernutrition among children under the age of five in Uganda

Rainfall and long-term water availability in a region before a woman becomes pregnant and during pregnancy predicted future growth outcomes of children in Uganda, according to new research led by a team from the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and the Penn State College of Medicine. Women living in an area that did not receive adequate rainfall or experienced drought were more likely to give birth to children who don’t grow at the expected rate for their age between birth and age five.

Penn State faculty speaking March 24 during the event “Research Scholarship and the Land Grant Mission: Why It Matters in Turbulent Times” include, clockwise from top left: Ray Block Jr., Brown-McCourtney Career Development Professor in the McCourtney Institute and associate professor of political science and of African American studies; Jennie Knies, University Libraries associate dean for Commonwealth Campus libraries; Erica Smithwick, distinguished professor of geography, director of the Earth and Enviro

Three Penn State deans are co-hosting an event focusing on role of the University as Pennsylvania’s land-grant institution, the similar role of U.S. land-grant universities and the impacts of scholarly research they produce.

The Penn State Department of Geography’s GeoGraphics Lab will host its first Community Mapping Day on April 5 in the Walker Building at University Park. The event, free and open to the public, runs from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., with an optional breakfast at 8 a.m. Participants, including students, faculty and community members, will have the opportunity to engage in hands-on mapping, geospatial storytelling and collaborative problem-solving focused on sustainability and local climate action.

The Penn State Department of Geography’s GeoGraphics Lab will host its first Community Mapping Day on Saturday, April 5, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the Walker Building at University Park. The event, free and open to the public, will kick off with an optional breakfast at 8 a.m. and bring together students, faculty and community members for a day of hands-on mapping, creative geospatial storytelling and collaborative problem-solving centered on sustainability and local climate action.

The Penn State Department of Geography will host Sophie Webber, senior lecturer and Australian Research Council DECRA Research Fellow in Geography at the University of Sydney, as part of its spring 2025 Coffee Hour lecture series. Webber’s talk, "Climate Finance: Taking a Position on Climate Futures," will examine how climate change is increasingly understood and addressed through financial mechanisms.

Sofia Hoffman has dreams of a career that will take her around the world — and thanks to her time at Penn State, it’s off to a good start.

Penn State's Office of Faculty Affairs has named 10 distinguished professors for 2025. The distinguished professor or distinguished librarian title recognizes outstanding academic contribution to the University

Penn State's Office of Faculty Affairs has named 10 distinguished professors for 2025, including Karl Zimmerer, professor of geograp

Felicia Henry, assistant professor of sociology at American University, will present at the Department of Geography's Coffee Hour lecture series at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 14

Felicia Henry, assistant professor of sociology at American University, will give the talk, "I Knew It Was COVID, I Knew I Was on Probation: Black Women Navigating Community Supervision During COVID-19," at the Department of Geography's spring 2025 Coffee Hour lecture series. Her talk will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 14, in 112 Walker Building on the University Park campus and via Zoom.