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
February 11, 2020
Former students of Prof. (Emeritus) Alfred Anderson collaborated to write a memorial piece, that was sent to the VOLCANO and MSA listservs.