Professor D’Arcy Meyer-Dombard co-organizes the third Midwest Geobiology Symposium at the Field Museum. The goal of the symposium is to promote “all the great geobiology research that happens between the coasts”.
Professor Carol Stein’s research on North America’s 1.1 billion year old Midcontinent rift is featured in a Nature news article and in Earth Magazine in August 2014, News: A real rift in the…
Nnamdi Lionel Mojekwu, MS student, has received the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the National Association of Geoscience Teachers. Click here for more information on the award and the NAGT.
Kristin Woycheese and Bharathi Vallalar, PhD students working under the direction of Professor Meyer-Dombard have received Graduate Student Research Grants from the Geological Society of America.
Caitlin Casar has received the Provost’s Award from the Graduate College for her project “Biological Influence on Mineralogical Evolution of the Zambales Ophiolite, Philippines”. She is working on her MS research with Professor…
Stefany Sit is awarded a Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Curriculum and Instruction grant to “Upgrade NATS 105 teaching lab and create relevant classroom demonstrations”. This project focuses on developing inquiry-based…
We welcome Max Berkelhammer to EaES. Max arrives from a post-doctoral position at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research is focused on natural and anthropogenic influences on the atmospheric water and carbon…
PhD student Kristin Woycheese has received a research grant from the Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research in Astrobiology for her work on “Biogeochemistry and depositional facies of a serpentinizing…
Professors Roy Plotnick and Carol Stein have been named Fellows of the Geological Society of America for their contributions in the field of geoscience. The following quotes from their nominations were published in…
Professor Stephen Guggenheim has been awarded the Marilyn and Sturges W. Bailey Distinguished Member Award, the highest honor of The Clay Minerals Society. The award is solely for scientific eminence in clay mineralogy…