Departmental Kudos

The Kenneth N Weaver Student Travel Award was awarded to Alex Ostroverkhova to support her travel to the GSA Connect Convention. At this year's convention, Alex  presented a poster on her research titled Using Data Science Methods to Explore the Origins of Ungrouped Carbonaceous Chondrites. Read more about her...

Graduate Student, Alissa Madera, was selected as 1 of the 4 students for the prestigious 2023 Wiley Award.  The Wiley Awards are given to a few students each year for the top oral presentations at the annual meeting of the Meteoritical Society, sponsored by Wiley, the publisher of the journal Meteoritics...

The 85th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society was held in August at the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, California. A total of 61 meteoritical society members won travel awards for the conference, Alissa was one of them. Her travel award was sponsored by the Barringer Crater Company, and it was...

  The New Jersey Space Grant Consortium awards academic year fellowships to undergraduate students at New Jersey universities conducting research in space science fields. Amelia will use this award to investigate topographic slumps and their relation to recurring slope lineae on Mars with EPS...

At key points in Earth’s history, enormous volcanic eruptions have dramatically altered climate, and in some cases have been linked with mass extinctions of life. How Earth systems—climate, weathering, and biology—recover after these events remains an open question. EPS faculty Ben Black and...

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...