November 27, 2016
New graduate student Justin Podowski has won an Illinois Space Grant Consortium (ISGC) graduate fellowship. He will be studying the effects of invasive Dreissena mussel pseudofeces output on water chemistry and microbial communities in the Great Lakes. Way to go Justin!
November 23, 2016
Christina Hulbe, who received her PhD in our department in 1998 under Doug MacAyeal's supervision, will give the Nye lecture on glaciology at the meeting of the American Geophysical Union this year. Christina is now a professor and the dean of the school of surveying at the University of Otago in New Zealand.
October 04, 2016
William Rainey Harper Professor Susan Kidwell has won the Raymond C. Moore Medal for Paleontology from the Society for Sedimentary Geology. The award is given for outstanding contributions in paleontology, especially those that "promote the science of stratigraphy through research in paleontology and evolution, and the use of fossils for interpretations of paleoecology." Congratulations Sue!