Letter from the Head of Department, Rob van der Hilst.
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Can't see it. Can't touch it. How can we know what's going on inside? EAPS geoscientists have the tools and tenacity to tease apart just how the interior of the Earth works.
Congratulations to Tanja Bosak, Paul O’Gorman, and Taylor Perron for their recent tenured appointments in recognition of their achievements, and their contributions to the School of Science.
EAPS congratulates Timothy Grove, Associate Department Head and Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Geology, who has just been elected to the American National Academy of Sciences.
Working at the interface between paleogenetics and the earth and planetary sciences, new faculty member Greg Fournier’s research seeks to link early Earth geochemistry with life history using DNA sequences from extant genomes.
Seven MIT faculty members, including EAPS Department Head Rob van der Hilst, are among 204 leaders from academia, business, public affairs, the humanities and the arts elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Professors Tanja Bosak, Mick Follows, and Roger Summons are all recent awardees of the Simons Foundation, a private foundation established in 1994 to advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences through sponsorship of a range of programs that aim to promote a deeper understanding of our world.
Graduate student and Rwandan native Jimmy Gasore is helping to build Africa’s first climate observatory.
Researchers in Taylor Perron's group at MIT and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) have developed a mapping technique that measures how much a river network is changing, and in what direction it may be moving. Their results are published in this week’s issue of Science.
Method that uses dips in light during transits may help determine the mass of exoplanets: New work by graduate student Julien de Wit and advisor Sara Seager in this week's issue of Science.
Not one to shirk the spotlight in the cause of educating the public over climate change, in spring 2014, Kerry Emanuel took his role as a public educator one step further with the launch of 12.340x Global Warming Science.
MIT Corporation member Neil Rasmussen ’76, SM ’80 and Anna Winter Rasmussen have supported two graduate fellows in climate science every year for the past three years.
We are pleased to announce that Angela Ellis will be joining EAPS on July 1 as our new Senior Development Officer, succeeding Dawn Adelson who left EAPS to join the Office of Leadership Giving at MIT in March.
Peter Molnar Takes Down a Popular Scientific Theory. Big Cats, Panamá, and Armadillos: A Story of Climate and Life" at the Lorenz Center's October 16 gala lecture at the New England Aquarium.
Honoring a pioneer of modern oil and gas exploration.
A symposium to honor the life and work of Professor Theodore "Ted" Madden, who died in November 2013 at age 88, was held March 14, 2014.
Our inaugural Theodore Richard Madden ’49 Fellow is Haoyue Wang, a graduate student in the Earth Resources Laboratory.
If you missed the inspiring presentation by NASA Curiosity Rover Chief Scientist John Grotzinger "Exploring Mars with the Curiosity Rover: The Search for Ancient Habitable Environments" here is a recording from this special EAPS event together with background about the new lecture series.
Fellowship funding ensures that EAPS can maintain its edge in attracting the very best graduate students.
For further information on giving opportunities or creating a named fund to benefit the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, please contact:
Angela Ellis
Senior Development Officer
Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT
aellis@mit.edu
617 253 5796
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