Departmental Kudos

Congratulations to Board of Governors Professor Paul Falkowski and colleagues, whose U.S. patent application has received a Notice of Allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The invention involves a nickel-containing peptide catalyst capable of producing hydrogen, with potential...

Congratulations to EPS alumnus Lakshman Prabhakar, who has begun his Ph.D. as part of MiningBrines, a European Marie Skłodowska-Curie research consortium. Based primarily at the University of Belgrade in Serbia, Lakshman will investigate the extraction of lithium from geothermal waters in the...

Distinguished Professor Yair Rosenthal is a co-author of a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters, investigating hydrothermal systems beneath the Fram Strait between Greenland and Svalbard. Using sediment cores collected during IODP Expedition 403, the international team documented how hot...

Professor Emeritus Roger Hewins has published what he tells us will be his last first-author journal paper—although he assures us a book chapter is still on the way! Published in Meteoritics & Planetary Science, the study examines Martian meteorites known as shergottites to better understand how...

Professor Lujendra Ojha and colleagues have challenged a long-standing assumption about Jupiter's icy moon Europa, one of the most promising places to search for life beyond Earth. Their research, published in Nature Astronomy and featured in Rutgers Today, suggests that water rising from Europa's...

Distinguished Professor Dr. Bob Kopp has been named a recipient of the American Geophysical Union’s 2026 Ambassador Award. The award honors scientists whose work has had an outstanding societal impact and who have shown exceptional leadership in connecting science with the public and with policy...

Rafa Stavros CottomPlease join us in congratulating Rafa Stavros Cottom on his selection as a Research Lead for the Governor’s STEM Scholars Program, organized by the Research & Development Council of New Jersey, a 501(c)(3) organization.  During the 2026-27 academic year, Rafa will mentor a team...

Congratulations to Rafa Stavros Cottom for having been selected to participate earlier this summer in the International Heat Flow Commission’s second-ever Heat Flow Summer School in Izmir, Türkiye. Hosted by faculty from the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences in Germany, the program provided...