For additional information about assistantships, fellowships, and awards visit the Graduate School's home page . This may be an independent research paper or a paper written for a course which has been modified. Award entries are due March 1 of each academic year. The Human Resources Development Center coordinates short summer courses on a variety of subjects for faculty and staff at Penn State. Graduate students are eligible to teach these courses.
Graduates are eligible to develop and supervise such courses in geography.
The department is housed in a modern building with five computer laboratories dedicated to research, development, and instruction. Instructional Computing 229 is a 15-seat Windows NT based facility that provides cartographic design, image processing, and multimedia applications. A research computing facility serves graduate students and faculty with a combination of computing equipment and software. The department also hosts the Deasy GeoGraphics Laboratory, a cartographic and multimedia design studio staffed by professional and student employees who produce print graphics, instructional multimedia, and visualization software. All department computing facilities offer Ethernet connections to Penn State's IBM mainframe, the Earth System Science Center's Cray supercomputer, and any other remote source available on the Internet.