Departmental Kudos

We are very proud to announce that NASA has selected EPS Associate Professor, Dr. Julianne Gross, to be one of the co-investigators on the Artemis III Geology Team. NASA's Artemis III Mission will land astronauts to the lunar South Pole to collect lunar samples, advancing the scientific discovery of lunar...

Dr. Ben Black, Assistant Professor in EPS, received a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award. In the words of NSF, CAREER awards are NSF’s “most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and...

  Mark Yu, PhD candidate, gave three department seminars at Bucknell University, Binghampton University, and Williams College for the 2023-2024 academic year. The talks revolved around findings from the Indian Ocean in understanding the intensities of the South Asian Monsoon over the last two...

Graduate student, Katelyn Frizzell, was chosen as one of the planetary geology mentors for the L’Space virtual academy hosted by Arizona State University.  The academies train students in STEM fields to work on designing and developing their own mini-NASA missions, as well as writing technology...

    Recent EPS Ph.D. graduate, Christina Verhagen, was awarded funding by the U.S. Science Support Program (USSSP) and International Ocean Discover Program (IODP): Novel projects in support of ocean drilling. Her postdoctoral research entitled, "Alteration in the top of the Atlantis Massif:...

Undergraduate Majors, Bryan Lee, Michelle Cimaglia, and Journey Berry were all selected as 3 of 20 recipients of the 2023 Angelo Tagliacozzo Memorial Geological Scholarship.  The applications came from 11 different colleges and universities within 5 of the 8 states that make up the Northeast Section of...