Applied Archaeology Student Research Featured in Pennsylvania Annual Report
Abdul Jones’ Applied Archaeology thesis research was featured in the 2025 Pennsylvania Archaeology Site Survey Report.
Students standing on top of ancient lava flow in Oregon mapping the surface using LiDAR.
Undergraduate Programs
Explore your options with programs that offer hands-on learning opportunities and a wide scope of career-building experiences.
Applied Anthropology, Anthropology, BA
Earth and Environmental Science, BS
Earth and Space Science Education
(Earth and Environmental Science, BS with Secondary Science Education Teaching Certificate)
Geographic Information Science and Planning, BS
Undergraduate Minors
Graduate Programs
Expand your professional options with a graduate program that takes you directly into the material you’ll need to advance your career.
Geography and Planning, MS
(not accepting new applicants for 2025–26 academic year)
Undergraduate Certificates
Cultural Competencies Certificate
Uncrewed Aircraft Systems Science and Applications Certificate
Geospatial Intelligence Analysis Certificate
Graduate Certificates
GIS and Geospatial Techniques Certificate
Geospatial Intelligence Analysis Certificate
Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) Science and Applications Certificate
Planetarium
The Cejka Planetarium in Kopchick Hall is a digital planetarium 35 feet in diameter. It is used extensively for educational outreach as well as in undergraduate instruction, both for introductory astronomy courses and in classes for Earth and Space Science teaching majors.
Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences Statement on Race and Diversity
The Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences Department is committed to combating racism through fostering inclusive and welcoming spaces for diverse students, and fostering student learning outcomes that expand the understanding of race: particularly, that race is not a biological reality, but that race and racism are cultural and social constructs that intersect with social class and other forms of social positionality to produce harm for people of color in our society and globally.
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News
IUP Cejka Planetarium Offering Program About Total Lunar Eclipse and Program on How Humanity Has Learned to Live in Space
IUP’s Cejka Planetarium in John J. and Char Kopchick Hall will host a program about the next total lunar eclipse on February 24, “Blood Moon: Total Lunar Eclipse,” and a presentation titled “Working from the Final Frontier: How Humanity has Learned to Live in Space” on March 25.
- 16 February 2026
IUP Anthropology Presents at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual Conference
IUP anthropology faculty and students attended and presented at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual Conference in New Orleans, LA, in February.
- 14 February 2026
Free Planetarium Show "Blood Moon: Total Lunar Eclipse"
The Cejka Planetarium show for February is “Blood Moon: Total Lunar Eclipse,” about the upcoming lunar eclipse in early March.
- 13 February 2026
Professor of Anthropology Presents Program on Medical Anthropology to IUP Proposed College of Osteopathic Medicine Steering Committee, Team
Indiana University of Pennsylvania professor of anthropology Abigail Adams presented a program on medical anthropology, disease theory systems, and the Appalachian region, of which Indiana is included, to the leadership team and steering committee of IUP’s proposed college of osteopathic medicine.
- 11 February 2026
Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
- Department of Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences
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Kopchick Hall, Room 114
421 North Walk
Indiana, PA 15705 - Phone: 724-357-2440
Office Hours
Monday through Friday
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.