🚌 GEOG 340: Thinking Sustainably took a field trip this week to the Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority. Students toured the facility and learned how materials are sorted and recycled to reduce waste and promote sustainability. ♻️
ICYMI: PSU Geography alum Kirk Goldsberry returned to campus last week to share how his geography degree led him to work with Team USA, the Spurs, ESPN, and The Ringer.
Congratulations to doctoral candidate Lilly Zeitler on her article, "Protected areas and Indigenous diets in Southeast Asia: Does proximity and level of protection matter?" published today in People and Nature!
Join our political-industrial ecology webinar Wednesday, Oct. 8, from noon to 1 p.m. Grad students Kristin Schoenecker, Faisal Elias & Owen Harrington take us inside summer fieldwork from Butte, Montana to Ghana to Worcester, Massachusetts.
Professor Joshua Inwood (@geogjosh.bsky.social) is recruiting graduate students for Fall 2026!
Prospective students are invited to connect by email & attend our graduate information session on Oct. 23 to learn more about opportunities in our M.S. and Ph.D. programs.
We welcomed alumni and donors Bob Myers and Jim McCrory back to campus Friday!
Bob has committed up to $25K in matching support for the GeoGraphics Lab, directly funding student cartography internships. Jim has also been a key supporter of the lab.
🏀 NBA analyst and Penn State geography alum Kirk Goldsberry is back on campus Friday, Sept. 26, to talk hoops, cartography, and the big data behind the modern game.
🐝 We kicked off our fall Coffee Hour lecture series with Christina M. Grozinger, who shared her work on conserving pollinators through tools like Beescape, a Penn State web platform that helps communities assess landscapes for bees and other pollinators.
Geography major & Penn State football player Nolan Rucci spent his summer with ClearWater Conservancy working on land & stream restoration 🌱🏈 Read more: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/ff13...
We're so excited about a new opportunity to support the GeoGraphics Lab @pennstategeography.bsky.social - our alumnus Robert Myers has committed up to $25,000 in a 1:1 match. These funds propel student cartographers working on mapping projects for community partners: raise.psu.edu/GeoGraphicsLab
We welcomed our newest graduate student cohort at orientation last week, and today they’re starting a new chapter in Penn State Geography. Some are joining us for the first time, while others are continuing their journey here, and we’re excited to see all they’ll accomplish!
