IMAGE OF THE WEEK
What did you do during the summer? Alan Taylor spent time in the John Muir Wilderness area in California. He took this image showing a member of his research team at the summit of the Four Gables.
GOOD NEWS
Angela Rogers wrote the article “Helping New Hires Become Part of the Local Community,” for the Association for Talent Development blog.
Eden Kinkaid had an article accepted for publication in cultural geographies. The article is entitled “Experimenting with creative geographic methods in the Critical Futures Visual Archive.” It highlights the PSU Crit Con art show and features the geographically inspired creative works of Aparna Parikh, Jenna Christian, Carolyn Fish, JiaChing Chen, and others.
The Fall Coffee Hour speaker line-up has been announced. The first Coffee Hour for the semester is September 7, with Farshid Ahrestani. See all confirmed speakers and dates on the department website events page: www.geog.psu.edu/calendar
NEWS
Penn State introduces new, mobile-friendly online visitor maps
Visitors to Penn State’s locations statewide will find it easier to navigate their way around campus with the launch of new, enhanced online maps.
Well-being of ‘left behind’ children in Kyrgyzstan focus of study
Erica Smithwick is on the research team
Growing up can be hard no matter what a family’s circumstances, but it is often more so for children living in the Kyrgyz Republic in Central Asia, one of the poorest countries in the world, known for its dry environment, high mountains, nomadic culture and animal-husbandry heritage.
GIS graduate students study abroad to advance careers at home
Brookelynn Constant was about halfway into her 10-year career as a data analyst for the U.S. Department of Defense when she enrolled in a master’s program through Penn State World Campus.
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
Spatial Cognition XI: 11th International Conference, Spatial Cognition 2018, Tübingen, Germany, September 5-8, 2018, Proceedings
Editors: Sarah Creem-Regehr, Johannes Schöning, Alexander Klippel
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-96385-3
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference, Spatial Cognition 2018, held in Tübingen, Germany, in September 2018.
The 22 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 44 submissions. They focus on the following topics: navigating in space; talking about space; agents, actions, and space; and individuals in space.