01/24/2018 - The Department of Geology continues to bring its historical treasures back into the Natural History Building. Several detailed replicas of fossils that were part of the early natural history museum...
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01/15/2018 - The Univ. of Illinois is hosting the 55th Annual Meeting of the Clay Minerals Society (CMS) on June 10 - 14, 2018. Prof. Stephen Altaner, who is on the Organizing Committee, will lead a field trip to...
01/15/2018 - In a paper “Western US volcanism due to intruding oceanic mantle driven by ancient Farallon slabs” published in Nature Geoscience, Lijun Liu and graduate students Quan Zhou and...
12/11/2017 - Julia Cisneros was invited as the sole student representative of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign to speak about her research and fieldwork in the Amazon and Yellow Rivers and showcase...
12/07/2017 - Graduate student Julia Cisneros won a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship this fall for a project titled “Dune morphology and dynamics in fluvial channels." Julia works with Professor...
12/07/2017 - Graduate student Yan Zhan, advised by Trish Gregg, had a paper accepted in Frontiers in Earth Science. This work demonstrates how modeling the eruption potential of a restless volcano can be improved...
12/07/2017 - Professor Emeritus Susan Kieffer is a leader in the emerging field of Geoethics. This year she received the Marcus Milling Legendary Geoscientist Medal of the American Geoscience Institute ...
12/07/2017 - Assistant Professor Wendy Yang’s recent paper “Evaluating the Classical Versus and Emerging Conceptual Model of Peatland Methane Dynamics” published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles provides an...
12/07/2017 - Graduate student Robert Goldman won an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in fall 2017 based on his proposal "Developing a Comprehensive 3D Finite Element Model of Magma Plumbing Systems to Improve...
11/21/2017 - Crunchflow, a powerful and multi-functional software package for modeling groundwater flow, solute transport, and subsurface chemical reactions, has received a prestigious R&D 100 award from R...
11/14/2017 - On November 3rd, 2017, Prof. R. James Kirkpatrick (PhD ’72), Dean of the College of Natural Sciences at Michigan State University, was presented with the department’s Alumni Achievement Award. Jim is...
10/31/2017 - NOVEMBER 4TH, 2017 Please join us for a grand event to mark the re-dedication of the Natural History Building! Geology alumni from all over will be converging on NHB for a re-...
10/10/2017 - Prof. Jim Best will be the 2018 awardee of the Lamarck Medal from the European Geosciences Union! The Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal is established by the EGS Division on Stratigraphy, Sedimentology...
10/08/2017 - In Spring, 2018, the Geology 415/515 Field Course will return to Scotland! After a semester of lectures and student presentations on the historical significance of Scottish geologists and localities...
07/12/2017 - Department of Geology faculty and grad student offices have moved back into the Natural History Building. Faculty offices and the department central office are now located on the east side of the...
