Bellino receives Henry Rutgers Scholar Award

Professor Gross is awarded Antarctica Service Medal

Dr. Bermingham Awarded National Science Foundation Grant

EPS welcomes our newest faculty member Dr. Katherine Bermingham!

Ashley receives GSA awards

Undergraduate Joyce Franco awarded scholarship

Dr. Bermingham opines about Earth's formation in NATURE

Verhagen receives AGU's Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA)

Rutgers geologists return from successful expedition to the southern Argentine margin

Verhagen Wins LPI Career Development Award!

EPS Welcomes Our New Faculty Member Lujendra Ojha

Rutgers geologists and oceanographers return from Pacific Ocean coring expedition

Professor Gross to become NASA Deputy Curator of Apollo Moon samples and reflects to USA Today and National Geographic on the significance of the 50-year anniversary of the Moon landing

Distinguished Professor Yair Rosenthal announced as AGU Fellow

Professor Gross to become NASA Deputy Curator of Apollo Moon samples and reflects to USA Today and National Geographic on the significance of the 50-year anniversary of the Moon landing

Benaroya wins prestigious NASA-LPI internship (click for story)

Congratulations to Mariya Galochkina who was selected as a 2019 Barry Goldwater Scholar by the Board of Trustees of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation and the Department of Defense National Defense Education Programs. The Goldwa

Galochkina selected as Goldwater Scholar. (click for story)

Anya Hess awarded dissertation development funding (click for story)

Sherman accepts NASA internship (click for story)

Xiaoran Chen awarded dissertation development funding (click for story)

Lepre awarded $87,000 from NSF (click for story)

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Caio Mattos Receives National Geographic Early Career Grant

caiofield4 Our PhD student Caio Mattos has been awarded a NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EARLY CAREER GRANT to support his continued field work in the Amazon and Cerrado ecosystems in eastern Brazil. Caio’s research focuses on understanding how water in the soil and rocks affect the distribution and functioning of vegetation in different biomes. Congratulations Caio! To learn more about Nat Geo Early Career Grants click here

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LUCIA BELLINO RECEIVES HENRY RUTGERS SCHOLAR AWARD Our graduating senior Lucia Bellino has just been chosen by SAS to receive the Henry Rutgers Scholar Award! According to the School of Arts and Sciences Scholarship Office, "The Henry Rutgers Scholar Award recognizes graduating seniors who have...
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NASA has offered Professor Juliane Gross an 18 month IPA (Intergovernmental Personnel Act) position to help open the Apollo Moon samples that were sealed 50 years ago. She will be the new "Deputy Apollo Sample Curator" at NASA JSC in Houston and will work in curation next to Dr. Ryan Zeigler...
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Distinguished Professor Yair Rosenthal announced as AGU Fellow

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We are proud to share the news that Dr. Yair Rosenthal has been announced as a 2019 fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), an honor given to individual AGU members who have made exceptional scientific contributions and gained prominence in their respective fields of Earth and space...