News & Events Yining Feng Successfully Defends Doctoral Dissertation Yining Feng, PhD candidate in Rural Sociology and Demography (dual-title), successfully defended her… New project to support, learn from Indigenous communities… Kristie Auman-Gooding from Penn State News reports on the upcoming RETRACE project focused on examin… $5M grant to engage Indigenous communities in climate… UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Indigenous communities around the globe face profound threats from climate ch… Postdoctoral Scholar - Arctic Indigenous Research JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS:Penn State’s Population Research Institute (PRI) and the S… Most Alaskan tribes stay put despite climate threats CLIMATEWIRE | Rural Alaskans who face worsening climate conditions — from sea-level rise to melting… Many people in the Arctic are staying put despite climate… UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Temperatures are rising rapidly in the Arctic, raising questions about how co… Dr Mucioki to join Emory University as Assistant Professor… -Dr. Megan Mucioki is thrilled to announce that she will start as an Assistant Profes… Project reveals pandemic perceptions in Alaskan fishing… -UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — When the COVID-19 pandemic spread across United States in early 2020, people… Demystify Environmental Migration -Shuai Zhou and Guangqing Chi published a review paper on the environmental migration literature to… Yining Feng Awarded $4,000 C-SoDA Seed Grant for Big-Data… Yining Feng has received a $4,000 seed grant from the Center for Social Data Analytics (C-SoDA) unde… Amish found to be under-vaccinated for COVID-19 but not… - This summer, viral misinformation claimed that the Amish did not vaccinate against COVI… Call for Paper on Big Spatial Data in Demography Researchers from diverse fields are invited to contribute using Big Spatial Data in Demography - T… RSS Call for Proposal for Rural Sociology Editor Call for proposal for Rural Sociology Editor as published in RSS's website - The RSS Publication C… Strategic city planning can help reduce urban heat island… Katie Bohn from Penn State News reports on important research on the urban heat island (UHI) effect.… Shuai Zhou to take postdoctoral position at Cornell… Shuai Zhou, a Ph.D. candidate in Rural Sociology and Demography (dual title) under the supervision o… Wildfire proximity associated with asthma cases in rural… Kristie Auman-Gooding reports on Alaska's increasing number of wildfires and subsequent increase in… Backlash to racial justice movements may boost risk of high… Katie Bowen reports in Penn State news about the research that found that Black people who lived in… Ayse Akyildiz Awarded NSF Fellowship to Attend a Workshop Ayse Akyildiz has received a fully-funded National Science Foundation (NSF) graduate fellowship to a… Geospatial Perspectives on Climate Change: Predicting and… Shuai Zhou was invited to a panel discussion at Geo-Resolution 2022 to discuss the issues of migrati… New grant continues Arctic research addressing climate… Penn State News published a summary of our six NSF funded research in the Arctic that are social sci… Load More
