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AGES Faculty and Students Represent IUP at Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting

Faculty and students from the Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences Department traveled to Denver to participate in the Society for American Archaeology annual meeting. They chaired sessions, presented on their ongoing work, participated in the SAA Ethics Bowl, and represented IUP and the Applied Archaeology program at the Cultural Resource Management Expo.

  • 06 May 2025
Student Achievements Faculty Achievements

AGES Faculty Recognized for Outstanding Scholarly Activities

During the thirty-first annual Research Awards Reception at IUP, three Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences faculty members were recognized for outstanding scholarly activities.

  • 30 April 2025
Research Faculty Achievements

Geography and Planning Faculty Member and Alumni Receive Governor’s Awards

The Pennsylvania Governor’s Awards for Local Government Excellence honored public officials at an April 2025 ceremony at the Pennsylvania State Museum in Harrisburg, which included multiple authorities with graduates from the IUP Planning program in leadership positions.

  • 28 April 2025
Faculty Achievements Alumni

Free Planetarium Show Celebrating Centennial of the Planetarium, May 7

Ken Coles will present “The Centennial of the Planetarium!”, a planetarium show celebrating 100 years since the first planetarium opened to the public in Germany. The show will review a few of the things a planetarium can show, along with recent discoveries from the Webb Space Telescope and the Bennu asteroid sample return.

  • 23 April 2025
Events

Archaeology Graduate Students Win Awards at Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology

Five IUP archaeology graduate students from the Department of Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences received awards and scholarships at the ninety-fourth annual meeting of the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology.

  • 22 April 2025
Student Achievements

Geographers Participate in Association of American Geographers Conference

Kevin Patrick and John Benhart, of the Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences Department,  attended the National Association of American Geographers conference in March 2025.

  • 18 April 2025
Faculty Achievements

AGES Students Participate and Win Awards at IUP Scholars Forum

The Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences Department had 56 students who presented at the twentieth annual IUP Scholars Forum on April 9, 2025. They gave both oral and poster presentations, and two applied archaeology graduate students participated in the Three-Minute Thesis Competition.

  • 16 April 2025
Student Achievements

Archaeology Graduate Students Present Research at Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology

IUP archaeology graduate students from the Department of Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences traveled to Dubois, Pennsylvania, to present their work at the ninety-fourth annual meeting of the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology.

  • 15 April 2025
Staff Achievements

Faculty and Students Present at Society for Applied Anthropology Meeting

IUP Anthropology faculty Amanda Poole and Abigail Adams, along with four IUP undergraduate students, participated in an academic panel at the eighty-fifth annual Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings held March 25–29 in Portland, Oregon.

  • 10 April 2025
Faculty Achievements Student Achievements

AGES Faculty and Students Present Research at Geological Society of America Meeting

Faculty and students of the IUP Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences Department traveled to Erie, PA to present at the Northeast-North Central Regional Geological Society of America Meeting. Their talks highlighted their ongoing research and demonstrated the diversity and synergy within the department.

  • 08 April 2025
Student Achievements Faculty Achievements Research

Palmiotto and Students Conduct Archaeological Investigations at South Carolina Indigenous Sites

IUP students, including advanced undergraduate and graduate students, joined Dr. Palmiotto in the field with their archaeological colleagues from the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) Heritage Trust Program. There the team conducted investigations of sites within Botany Bay Plantation Heritage Preserve in Charleston County, visited the iconic Fig Island Shell Ring complex, and met with representatives of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation (MCN).

  • 31 March 2025
Student Achievements Research Academic Programs

Telescope Display and Full Moon Star Party

The IUP Cejka Planetarium will host a chance to view and learn about our telescopes, and if it is a clear night, we’ll also observe the Moon and sky.

  • 27 March 2025
Community IUP Now Events

Taylor Publishes on Nature of Faunal Turnover, Change in Ocean Chemistry Associated with Latest Cambrian Mass Extinction

Professor Emeritus John Taylor and colleagues published a new study based on faunal collections from a 50-meter interval of the Jones Ridge Limestone in easternmost Alaska. The study provided new, detailed faunal range data across the base of the North American Ibexian Series and geochemical data that confirm an associated shift in ocean chemistry.

  • 25 March 2025
Alumni Faculty Achievements Research

Professor Emeritus Taylor Publishes New Insights Into Fossil Record from Northern Laurentia

Professor Emeritus John Taylor published a new study on the taxonomy and stratigraphic distribution of Lotagnostus (Agnostida: Agnostidae) and associated trilobites and conodonts with IUP alumni James D. Loch ’83 and John E. Repetski ’69.

  • 21 March 2025
Faculty Achievements Alumni Research

Flores Honored as National Hispanic Institute’s College Student of the Year

The National Hispanic Institute has recognized IUP student Marisol Gonzalez Flores as one of its College Students of the Year 2024.

  • 20 March 2025
Student Achievements Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

AGES Seminar: Antarctic Paleoclimate

Molly Patterson, Binghamton University, will present a seminar on the “Catchment Sensitivities of the West and East Antarctic Ice Sheets to Orbital Forcing During the Mid- to Late Pliocene” at the Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences Seminar on Friday, March 28, in Kopchick 102 from 11:15 to 12:15.

  • 06 March 2025
Events

Free “Back to Venus” Planetarium Show, March 6

Ken Coles will present “Back to Venus” at the Cejka Planetarium. Come explore Venus!

  • 20 February 2025
Events Community University Updates

Cejka Planetarium Announces Spring 2025 Schedule

IUP's Cejka Planetarium has announced the Spring 2025 schedule.

  • 19 February 2025
Events

Coles Presents AGES Seminar: “A Paleozoic Jackpot in Nevada”

Ken Coles will present a seminar, “A Paleozoic Jackpot in Nevada: Starved Deposition Can Feed Us a Lot of Information,” at the Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences Department Seminar Series on Friday, February 14, in Kopchick 102 from 11:15 to 12:15.

  • 11 February 2025
Events

John Benhart on the Evolution of Knowledge—Meet Our Faculty

There are laws of science, but true science changes. That’s what excites John Benhart, a professor in IUP’s Department of Anthropology, Geospatial, and Earth Sciences. Learn more about him in this Meet Our Faculty feature.

  • 10 February 2025
"Special Series" Feature IUP Now Meet Our Faculty

AGES Students Named Provost Scholars

The Department of Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences congratulates our students named as Provost Scholars. To be named a Provost Scholar, students must have earned a minimum of 45 semester hours at IUP with a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher. Provost Scholar recognition is given only once during a student’s time of study at IUP.

  • 04 February 2025
Student Achievements

AGES Students Named to Fall 2024 Dean’s List

The Department of Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences congratulates our students for being named to the Dean’s List for fall 2024. Students receive this recognition for each semester in which they earn a GPA of 3.25 or higher while taking a minimum of 12 credits.

  • 04 February 2025
Student Achievements

IUP Students Present at the Appalachian Collegiate Research Initiative Conference in Washington, D.C.

A team of IUP students presented their research at the Appalachian Collegiate Research Initiative (ACRI), a grant-funded program of the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC). The 2024 ACRI conference, held December 6–7 in Washington, D.C., featured projects from students representing 15 colleges and universities. These projects addressed a range of pressing regional issues, from economic revitalization to environmental sustainability, showcasing innovative, community-centered solutions.

  • 27 January 2025
Student Achievements

Poole Presents at African Studies Association Annual Meeting

Dr. Amanda Poole, Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences, recently participated in the 66th African Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, held in Chicago, Illinois, from December 12–14, 2024. The ASA Annual Meeting, the largest gathering of Africanist scholars in the world, is the flagship event of the association and brought together over 2,000 scholars and professionals under the theme Global Africa.

  • 27 January 2025
Faculty Achievements

Jonathan Warnock’s Rock-Star Life—Meet Our Faculty

Jonathan Warnock has always been into rocks. But that interest led him to a curiosity about the Earth, what affects it, and why it is how it is. Learn more about him in this installment of Meet Our Faculty.

  • 27 January 2025
Feature IUP Now Meet Our Faculty "Special Series"
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