02/12/2020 - The Department of Geology remembers Dr. Jim Kirkpatrick, who passed away in January 2020.
News
01/30/2020 - Geology Graduate Student Minfei Chen Wins the Outstanding Student Presentation Award at the 2019 AGU Meeting
01/27/2020 - $2.5 million software package renewed with Department of Geology and ISGS.
01/24/2020 - Dr. Easterling talks about the benefits of curiosity-driven and convergent research at a talk at NHB.
01/22/2020 - In a paper in Nature Sustainability, Jim Best and colleagues lift the veil on sand mining in the Mekong River, and examine its environmental effects and sustainability
10/30/2019 - On October 10th, the department welcomed Dr. James R. Baroffio (Ph.D. ‘64) to campus, and presented to him the Department of Geology Alumni Achievement Award for 2019. Jim was born and raised in...
10/11/2019 - The weather is getting colder in town! That means Flannel Friday! Show your geology spirit by wearing flannel!
10/10/2019 - Congratulations to our recent Geology Department graduates!
09/25/2019 - Using a new computer modeling technique normally applied to weather and climate, PhD student Jack Albright and his advisor Prof. Patricia Gregg have developed a method to forecast volcanic eruptions...
09/24/2019 - The Department of Geology in the School of Earth, Society, and Environment (https://earth.illinois.edu/) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...
08/27/2019 - Professor Stephen Altaner led over 45 students and staff on the 2019 Annual SESE Field Trip. Participants were able to collect shattercones at the Kentland Impact Site, the site where U of I alumnus...
08/25/2019 - Ralph L. Langenheim Jr., Professor Emeritus of stratigraphy and paleontology, passed away on August 3rd, 2019, at the age of 97. Ralph was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 26, 1922, to Ralph and...
08/23/2019 - Anyone who thinks space is the final frontier should familiarize themselves with the research of Lijun Liu, professor of geology and a GeoThrust Professorial Scholar at the University of Illinois. He...
08/22/2019 - Graduate students Julia Cisneros and Aida Guhlincozzi developed a new program this summer, bringing 30 middle school girls to campus to participate in several geoscience experiments, including...
08/16/2019 - The department’s Eryops skeleton has returned to the Natural History Building and now has a home outside the “Geology row” faculty offices on the 3rd floor! This plaster replica graced the second...
