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Penn State Geography is launching a new sustainability, society and environmental geography undergraduate major focused on the human dimensions of sustainability with a core aligned to the United Nati...

The Geography Education Networking Initiative for Underrepresented Scholars (GENIUS) is a three-day workshop designed for rising third- and fourth-year students, including first-generation college stu...

Christelle Wauthier, associate professor of geosciences at Penn State, will present at the Department of Geography’s Coffee Hour lecture series at noon on Friday, Jan. 23, in 401 Steidle.

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Local governments have a lot of freedom on how to spend the funds, but there’s also confusion and a feeling of moral responsibility to spend wisely after so many lives have been lost.

Penn State University Libraries will observe GIS Day, an annual event celebrating the technology of geographic information systems, on Nov. 17. This year’s activities focus on geospatial presentation,...

With the advent of artificial intelligence, researchers have developed an independent “agent” capable of performing geographic information system functions with minimal human oversight. It's the lates...

You might need a degree in geography to chart the career and life experience paths of Bob Myers. Thankfully, he has a few. Myers is a geospatial expert, with two master's degrees and three certificate...

Benjamin DeAngelo, a Penn State geography alumnus, has launched Operation Future, a climate adaptation and resilience consulting firm drawing on his nearly 30 years of federal experience.

Suraiya Parvin and Naser Lessani, two doctoral candidates in Penn State’s Department of Geography, will deliver research talks as part of the department’s Graduate Student Coffee Hour series at 3:30 p...

For two Penn State undergraduates, July 2025 brought an experience far from campus classrooms. Geography majors Jesse Ehrlich and Cadence O’Brien spent a month in Malawi as part of the ECODRYFOREST pr...

Naomi Bird, an undergraduate student majoring in geography and comparative literature at Penn State, worked with Emily Rosenman and Louisa Holmes, both associate professors of geography, to help inves...

An Oct. 29 virtual event hosted by the University Climate Change Coalition will bring together several climate scholars, including the director of Penn State's Earth and Environmental Systems Institut...

In this paper, we conceptualize the relationship among unconventional oil and gas development (UOGD), water quality and public health as an inscrutabl…