Penn State Climate Consortium awards 5 workshops focused on climate solutions
The Penn State Climate Consortium has awarded five workshops as a part of its Climate Solutions Accelerator Program for 2025. In its second year, the Climate Solutions Accelerator continues to foster impactful research and bring effective climate solutions to communities in Pennsylvania and around the world. The purpose of the collaborative workshops is to establish and/or advance teams aligned with the Climate Consortium’s themes.
Karl Zimmerer name distinguished professor for 2025
Penn State's Office of Faculty Affairs has named 10 distinguished professors for 2025, including Karl Zimmerer, professor of geography, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.
Coffee Hour lecture to examine COVID-19’s impact on Black women on probation
Felicia Henry, assistant professor of sociology at American University, will give the talk, "I Knew It Was COVID, I Knew I Was on Probation: Black Women Navigating Community Supervision During COVID-19," at the Department of Geography's spring 2025 Coffee Hour lecture series.
ICDS director named chair of American Geophysical Union annual meeting committee
Guido Cervone, Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) interim director and professor of geography, of meteorology and of atmospheric science, was recently named chair of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting program committee.
Laifang Li to discuss North Atlantic cooling at Geography Coffee Hour
Laifang Li, assistant professor of meteorology and atmospheric science at Penn State, will present at the Department of Geography's Coffee Hour lecture series at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 7.
Four Penn State faculty members named American Association of Geographers fellows
Four Penn State Department of Geography faculty members — Lorraine Dowler, Joshua Inwood, Zhenlong Li and Emily Rosenman — have been named 2025 fellows of the American Association of Geographers (AAG).
Q&A: Causes, spread and solutions for California’s wildfire crisis
As wildfires relentlessly sweep across Southern California and other parts of the world, Manzhu Yu, an assistant professor of geography at Penn State, offered insights into the ongoing crisis in Los Angeles (LA).
Session proposals for 2025 Climate Solutions Symposium now being accepted
The Penn State Climate Consortium has announced a call for breakout sessions for the 2025 Climate Solutions Symposium, taking place May 19-20, 2025, at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center.
Penn State delegation will head to Azerbaijan for UN's annual climate meeting
Penn State will be sending its second delegation of students and faculty to the United Nations’ annual climate meeting. This year’s conference, COP29, will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan from Nov. 11–22.
$1.3M NSF grant to fund research into restoration of degraded ecosystems
Ida Djenontin, assistant professor of geography at Penn State, was recently awarded a $1.3 million grant from the NSF to investigate the socioecological outcomes of restoration in degraded woodlands ecosystems.