The Department of Geography and Urban Studies teaches and researches the intersection of nature, society and urbanism. Below, you’ll find content highlighting everything our Geography and Urban Studies, Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Studies communities are doing to learn about the changing environment and humans’ impacts on it, to research society and people through geospatial technology, and to sustainably develop cities and towns. Read the stories below and please contact us if you have a story of your own you think we should tell.

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College of Liberal Arts

Congratulations, Class of 2021!

by Nick Santangelo
May 03
Global pandemic? Zoom classes? A mostly empty campus? None of this was any problem for the College of Liberal Arts Class of 2021! OK, we get it. These were monumental challeng...
Africology and African American Studies

CLA Promotes Diversity and Anti-Bias

by Richard Deeg
October 28
This past year has seen race and racial inequality return as hot topics of national debate and contention. The problems currently receiving heightened attention are not new, b...

CLA Launching U.S.’s First Professional Science Master’s in Geospatial Data Science

by Nick Santangelo
September 28
By: Nick Santangelo This spring, Temple University's College of Liberal Arts (CLA) will become the first school in the U.S. to offer a Professional Science Master's and Gradu...
Center for Sustainable Communities

CLA's Webinar to Explore Anti-Racism and Sustainability in Philly

by Nick Santangelo
September 14
By: Nick Santangelo Tomorrow, September 15, at 3:30 p.m., the College of Liberal Arts' (CLA) Center for Sustainable Communities will host a webinar called Envisioning an Ant...

New Faculty Publication: A Case Study of Aedes Albopictus in Southeastern Pennsylvania

by Nick Santangelo
October 30
A recent publication provides new evidence of drivers influencing the spatial distribution of invasive disease species. Traditionally, scientists have used environmental data...
Center for Sustainable Communities

New Report from the Center for Sustainable Communities Examines Infrastructure and Equity

by Nick Santangelo
October 03
The College of Liberal Arts' Center for Sustainable Communities (CSC) has released a new report in conjunction with a recent National Science Foundation funded three-day Sust...
Anthropology

CLA Presents Second Annual Liberal Arts Undergraduate Research Awards

by Nick Santangelo
April 16
Last Friday, Temple University's College of Liberal Arts (CLA) held its second annual Liberal Arts Undergraduate Research Awards (LAURAs). The LAURAs grant $2,000 each to unde...