Dr. Ben Black Selected as a 2024 Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences

EPS Assistant Professor Ben Black has been selected as a 2024 Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences. Kavli Fellows are chosen from “among the nation's brightest young scientists from industry, academia, and government” to participate in discussions of new ideas and advances spanning a broad...

STEM Grads Giving Back: Upward Bound Math-Science

The Upward Bound Math-Science Pre-College Program at Rutgers University is designed to assist and motivate first-generation, low-income high school students, preparing them for college admission and supporting them in completing their degrees. Lydia DiMattia, a Ph.D. student in the Department of...

Graduate student Alex Ostroverkhova awarded Kenneth N Weaver Student Travel Award from the...

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...

Madera Selected for 2023 Wiley Award

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...

Graduate Student, Alissa Madera, Award Travel Award from Barringer Crater Company

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...

Undergraduate Amelia Ascione Awarded Fellowship from NJ Space Grant Consortium

  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...

EPS Scientists, Drs. Black and Adamo, Receive NSF Grant to Investigate Recovery from Major Climate...

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...

Dr. Gross is on the Artemis III Mission Geology Team

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...