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The Penn State Climate Consortium has awarded funding to four research projects through its Climate Solutions Accelerator Program.

The NIH has awarded Zhenlong Li a two-year, $399,391 grant to study how environmental factors contribute to obesity, particularly in racial and ethnic minority communities.

Alan Taylor's career will be honored with a two-part celebration a symposium, “Forests of Change: Looking to the Past to Understand the Future - Reflections on a Career" and a "Celebration of Achievements."

 With voter registration deadlines fast approaching around the country, Penn State News spoke with Chris Fowler, associate professor of geography and demography at Penn State, about his research into the nation’s voter rolls.

The Penn State Department of Geography will continue its fall 2024 "Coffee Hour" lecture series with a talk by Anne Bonds, professor of geography and urban studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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.

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

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.