March 18, 2020
51 Pegasi b fellow Tad Komacek and Associate Professor Dorian Abbot's work was covered in AAS Nova, which highlights the most interesting work published in AAS journals. In their paper they showed that it will be extremely challenging to detect water transmission features in the atmospheres of terrestrial exoplanets in the habitable zone of M dwarf stars with the James Webb Space Telescope.
March 11, 2020
Work on 'blocks' in the jet stream by Dept. alum Lei Wang (now at Harvard) and Prof. Noboru Nakamura was recently featured in Science Magazine! Congratulations to both!
February 14, 2020
The Department mourns the loss of Ed Olsen, former Curator of Mineralogy and Meteorites at the Field Museum. Ed had a close relationship with many researchers in the department over his career.
https://meteoritical.org/news/2020/02/13/edward-j-olsen-1927-2020