Service

Before becoming head of the department, Cindy Brewer served on department, college, and university-level committees for promotion and tenure. In geography, she has been the associate head, graduate officer, undergraduate officer, and director of the Gould Center.

She has been a member of varied university committees, such as Dean and Vice President searches. She was also elected to the University Faculty Senate and chaired the Faculty Affairs committee. She was chosen by Penn State as an Administrative Fellow, spending the year shadowing then-Provost, Rod Erickson, and working on special projects with university leaders.

In the College of EMS, she has served on Associate Dean searches and the EMS Faculty Affairs Committee. She also takes on many ad hoc roles — the most enjoyable was recently reworking how annual raises are decided in the college. Now that’s important.

In 2014, she received the EMS Wilson Award for Outstanding Service. A long list of university service roles is included as an addendum to her CV.

In reflecting on a recent big task of organizing the scientific program for ICC 2017, she realized she was using all her cartographic skills: evaluating quality of data, classing by attributes, multivariate analysis, color coding, generalizing, revising over and over, consulting and collaborating, spanning the globe, steering and responding to clients, and of course using balky computer interfaces.