IMAGE OF THE WEEK
They earned their mugs. The November 20 Coffee Hour featured graduate students (left to right): Nate Frey, Amanda Young, Adrienne Tucker, Sam Stehle, Russell Hedberg, Arielle Hesse, Jenn Titanski-Hooper, and Sterling Quinn. Each gave a 5-minute talk on their area of research. Video is available. http://www.geog.psu.edu/news/events/coffee-hour-graduate-student-lightening-talks
GOOD NEWS
- Former graduate students Kevin Sparks (M.S. ’15) and Jinlong Yang (M.S. ’13), together with ChoroPhronesis members Alex Klippel and Jan Wallgrün had an article accepted in The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication.
- Stephen Matthews is the co-editor of a recent book (released by Springer): Recapturing Space: New Middle Range Theory in Spatial Demography. http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319228099
NEWS
Coffee Hour with Laura Stafford
“Relational, Cognitive, and Communicative Implications of Relating at a Distance”
Common sense, as well as fundamental theories of interpersonal communication, has often led to the prediction that long-distance romantic relationships should be unsatisfying and unstable. In this presentation, Stafford summarizes a series of investigations of long-distance dating partners that challenge this assumption. She will discuss the associations between romantic idealization, communication, and relational stability.
- 3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
- Refreshments are offered in 319 Walker Building at 3:30 p.m.
- The lecture begins in 112 Walker Building at 4:00 p.m.
- Coffee Hour To Go Webcast
- Next time: January 15 with Jia-Ching Chen
Public invited to Earth and Mineral Sciences undergraduate poster exhibition
The fourth annual College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS) Undergraduate Poster Exhibition will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Dec. 2 in the Deike Building (ground floor) on Penn State’s University Park campus. Organized by the EMS Ryan Family Student Center, the poster exhibition provides an opportunity for undergraduate students in EMS to showcase their research, and connect and share their work with other students, faculty, staff and the community. The poster exhibition will include poster presentations by more than 30 EMS undergraduate students. The event is free and open to the public.
Andrew Carleton featured on Weather World video about contrails
Andrew Carlton is the distinguished member of Penn State’s Department of Geography with research ties to many aspects of climate science. The climatology of jet contrails is one of them. “I use satellite data to identify them their occurrences and to map them in GIS but then we also look at them on climate time scale so on periods of multiple weeks to several months so you can identify where the characteristic places in the United States that contrails tend to occur,” Carleton says in the video.
SWIG collection for CCWRC holiday basket
For the last few years SWIG has committed to sponsoring a family through the Centre County Women’s Resource Center Holiday Sponsorship Program. Nari Senanayake (nus192@psu.edu) is collecting money through Friday, December 4.
RECENTLY (OR SOON TO BE) PUBLISHED
“Approaching a Critical Turn? A Content Analysis of the Politics of Resilience in Key Bodies of Resilience Literature.”
By Biermann, Maureen (current Ph.D. candidate), Kevin Hillmer-Pegram (M.S. ’11), Corrine Noel Knapp, and Richard E. Hum
In Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses.
DOI: 10.1080/21693293.2015.1094170
Resilience thinking is increasingly used as both a theoretical framework and as a tool for managing and governing social and social–ecological systems. However, resilience may lead to undesirable outcomes if it fails to critically engage with issues of power, justice and equity, or what we call the politics of resilience. This potential pitfall can be addressed by incorporating critical theory, which aims to critique and transform historically inequitable social realities: a goal being actively pursued by scholars who publish in, inter alia, Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses.