News & Events
News
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Alum starts Tenure Track at Purdue
May 27, 2020
Department alum Lei Wang (PhD 2016) will be joining Purdue University as an Assistant Professor this August. His new group will focus on large-scale atmospheric dynamics. Lei's University of Chicago thesis, advised by Noboru Nakumura, was "Periodic behavior of finite-amplitude wave activity in the Southern Hemisphere storm track."
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Sue Kidwell at Center Stage
May 21, 2020
Prof. Susan Kidwell was recently interviewed by ACS Central Science's Central Stage series about her work in paleoecology. Congrats, Prof. Kidwell!
You can find the interview here.
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Archer Awarded for Undergraduate Teaching
May 21, 2020
Professor David Archer, long the face of the immensely popular PhySci course Gobal Warming: Understanding the Forecast, will receive this year's Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. This award is given to faculty in recognition of their success in educating and inspiring the undergraduates in the College, and is particularly meaningful as nominations come from the students themselves. Given his longstanding dedication to teaching and making science accessible to students, this award is very well deserved. Congratulations, Prof. Archer!
You can find the online version of Global Warming here.
