MacEachren receives a 2019 Graduate Faculty Teaching Award
Alan MacEachren, professor of geography in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences has received a Penn State 2019 Graduate Faculty Teaching Award.
Alan MacEachren, professor of geography in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences has received a Penn State 2019 Graduate Faculty Teaching Award.
Researchers investigating an interactive program using trade-off diagrams that would lead decision makers in the right direction, allow compromises, but not dictate the results.
The Climate and Environmental Change Certificate is intended for students seeking to understand the spatial patterns and physical processes of climate change and variability, and to hone their skills of environmental data collection, analysis, and interpretation.
Penn State's Social Science Research Institute(SSRI), in collaboration with the Institute for CyberScience (ICS) and the College of Information Sciences and Technology, has awarded over $100,000 in funding to support six new interdisciplinary teams of Penn State researchers whose work is aimed at developing innovative research programs using Twitter data.
Future conditions in California may include more rain rather than snow during the wet season, longer fire seasons, and higher temperatures leading to drier fire seasons, according to a team of researchers who looked at the historic patterns of the North Pacific Jet, precipitation and fire.
Penn State Professor Christopher Fowler's fall 2018 GEOG 421: Population Geography class won first place in the Higher-Ed division of the "Draw the Lines PA" statewide finals in February.
Imagine a world where space and time do not matter, where it's possible to witness critical events in the history of the Earth and humankind, or have a sneak peek into the future.
People around the world paint their walls different colors, buy plants to spruce up their interiors and engage in a variety of other beautifying techniques to personalize their homes, which inspired a team of researchers to study about 50,000 living rooms across the globe.
After a campus tour, Mackenzie Williams walked into the Bryce Jordan Center on a whim and was awestruck at the sight of the Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon, a 46-hour dance marathon known as THON.
Clio Andris, assistant professor of geography and Penn State Institute for CyberScience (ICS) associate, will discuss how geographic information systems (GIS) are helping to investigate ways of building communities that foster relationships and social life.