Kaitlyn Spangler, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Geography at Penn State, will deliver the talk "Towards solar justice in Pennsylvania: tensions of land, farming, and power" at 4 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 10.
Penn State University Libraries will participate in the 14th annual global observation of Open Access Week, Oct. 24–30, by hosting a virtual panel of Penn State faculty at noon Tuesday, Oct. 25.
Jenn Baka, associate professor of geography at Penn State, received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award to examine a new cracker plant’s impact on humans’ relationship to the environment and environmental policymaking.
Kaitlyn Spangler, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Geography at Penn State, will discuss issues relating to crop diversity in her talk "Beyond corn, soy and wheat? Re-imagining a diverse U.S. agricultural landscape.”
Penn State University Libraries will observe GIS Day — an annual event celebrating the technology of geographic information systems (GIS) — with a two-day event Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 14 and 15.
Although high school was not his favorite place as a teenager, Penn State alumnus Jordan Chapman quickly realized just how important higher education was for students who look like him.
A new study may fill in gaps in understanding public perception toward prescribed burns in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic, where these fires are increasingly used, according to scientists.
Linette Boisvert, a sea ice scientist and assistant lab chief in NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Cryospheric Sciences Branch, will give the talk “It’s Complicated: The Complex Relationship of Cyclones on Arctic Sea Ice” as part of the Penn State Department of Geography's Coffee Hour talks.
The Penn State Center for Energy Law and Policy (CELP) and the Hamer Center for Community Design in the College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School are teaming up to host a one-hour webinar at 10:30 a.m. on Dec. 1 to address the substantial challenges low-income individuals in Pennsylvania face in accessing energy efficiency programs.
As the first Millennium Scholar in the College of Earth and Mineral Science, Ana De La Fuente Duran embraced the opportunities of the program, which aims to help ambitious students onto the track toward advanced degrees in STEM fields.