A new general education course at University Park — GEOG 397 — will immerse students in the world of virtual reality, 360-degree video, augmented reality and more.
Penn State has launched a new graduate certificate aimed at helping geospatial professionals working in the GIS and web mapping industries to expand their software development and coding skills.
Parks and People: Conservation of Nature in Community in Mang’ula, Tanzania, provides students of all majors the ability to discover more about the world and themselves through an international field research experience.
Augmented reality is reviving the educational focus of Penn State's oldest monument on the University Park campus, the Obelisk. An app developed by Department of Geography researchers lets users learn more about the history of each of the Obelisk's 281 stones.
When geography doctoral student Xi Liu saw an opportunity to work for Google on a project that involved geographical data analysis — on a project related to his dissertation research — he wasted no time in applying.
As an emergency management specialist with the Federal Emergency Management Association, Adrienne Kramer is applying her geography skills to build maps, analytical tools and other resources to help the agency improve its response and recovery operations.
Faculty and students in the Department of Geography are among the many Penn State Earth scientists participating in the 2017 American Geophysical Union meeting, which began Dec. 11 and runs through Dec. 15 in New Orleans. The geographers are highlighting applications of new visualization technologies for Earth science topics.
Penn State geography doctoral student A. Marie Ranjbar's research explores the language of human justice in Iran: how certain phrases have become politicized and in some ways dangerous to use, and how some residents deal with this conundrum as they seek ways to speak up for themselves.
Penn State geography student Travis Young is researching why low-income neighborhoods in Houston are the only ones in the area at high risk for flooding. His research interests stem from many factors in his personal and professional life.
A Penn State professor is researching the trickle-down effects that melting tropical glaciers have on food security and biodiversity, and what regional communities, like Cusco and Huaraz in Peru, can do about it.
Though it was abolished more than two decades ago, Apartheid continues to affect communities in South Africa. Penn State geography researcher Brian King has been studying the political system's effects on rates of HIV and AIDS today in rural South Africa.
Resources, presentations and career options for GIS and related fields are highlighted during an expanded program of 2016 GIS Day activities Nov. 14-15 at Penn State’s Pattee Library and Paterno Library at University Park.
Protecting the landscape may also help protect people from some infectious diseases, according to Erica Smithwick, associate professor of geography. Smithwick and her colleagues have been investigating how land use has affected the spread of two diseases in sub-Saharan Africa.
Jordan Chapman has uncovered plant fossils while digging for dinosaurs in Denver and caught glimpses of the Milky Way in the sky on a flight to Israel. Now, the Penn State senior is getting ready to take that curiosity and drive to explore with him after he graduates from Penn State with a bachelor’s in anthropology and geosciences and a minor in geography.
Severe fires in California are destroying forest and creating conditions for shrubland to grow in place of trees and take over the land. The fires could throw off the historic dynamic between the two landscape types, according to a new study.
