Luoth Chou, PhD student working under the direction of Professor Fabien Kenig, is awarded the Chancellor’s Graduate Research Fellowship for her project “The Metabolomics of the brine of Lake Vida (Antarctica): A biogeochemical…
Recent PhD student Hilary Dugan, who worked with Professor Peter Doran, receives first place in UIC’s Image of Research contest for her stunning photo from Antarctica titled “Of Ice and Men”. Hilary is…
Professor Roy Plotnick talks about his thought experiment on the “Sixth Extinction”, a term that refers to the decline in biodiversity over the past centuries. He and his coauthors ask if biological species…
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…