2025 Newsletter Issues
June 9th Graduation Edition! Photos and memories from the big day!
April 29th What’s Blooming? Perkins Award, Draper Award, Phi Beta Kappa, and CONVOCATION!
April 15th Busy Bees! Grad talks, Earth Day 365, PhD defense, grad student award, and more!
April 1st Earth Month! Climate change is solved, stick bugs invade earth, and the moon explodes!
March 18th Solar Power! Senior spotlights, grad talks, PhD defense, Giving Day, and more!
March 4th Marching Forth! Research Bites, Science Communication, bald eaglets, and more!
February 19th Making Waves! DEI Opportunities, Climate Anxiety event, moray eels, and more!
February 4th Seismic Surprises! Career fair, grad talks, BU Closet spotlight, Idori, and more!
January 21st Happy New Year! Spring 2025 semester begins, welcome back, more!
2024 Newsletter Issues
December 16th End of Year Wrap Up! Successful PhD defenses, awards, publications, and more!
November 14th Leaf Edition! Wally Fulweiler Pivot Fellow, cool events, a sea slug, and more!
October 25th Halloween! Spooky seminars, tasty Research Bites, haunting news, and more!
October 10th Mid-Semester Momentum! Photo winners, publications, DEI events, and more!
September 24th Autumn Opportunities! Awards, book publication, a chair welcome, and more!
September 10th The Semester is Off to a Great Start! Lots of events, lots of publications, and lots more!
August 29th Welcome Back to Campus! Photo contest, orientations and kickoff events, and more!
June 25th Summer Updates! 5 Promotions, 4 PhDs, summer activities, and more.
May 31st Special Graduation Edition! Check out these amazing photos and memories, and celebrate the class of 2024!
April 30th End of semester excitement! Senior events, summer plans, finals tips, and more.
April 19th Achievements galore! NASA Competition Winners, Campus Climate Lab presentations, publications, and more.
April 2nd Earth Month! Earth Day 365 Events, summer jobs, a successful PhD defense, absolutely no pranks, and more.
March 19th Back to school! IGS video, upcoming Earth Day events, summer opportunities, Visualizing Energy, and more.
March 6th Newsletter Returns! Intl Women’s Day Event, Seminar Series, Office Artifacts feature and more.
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Department News
Lecturer Rick Reibstein published in the Institute for Sustainable Energy
Lecturer Rick Reibstein writes "As a lifelong environmentalist people sometimes tell me that they really care about the environment but don’t know… More
Professor Robinson “Wally” Fulweiler and Biology student Nicholas E. Ray publish in Nature Sustainability
Overfishing, nutrient-fuelled hypoxia and habitat destruction have reduced oyster populations to a fraction of their former abundance. Over the past two decades… More
Former Ph.D. Student Chi Chen Published Article on Biophysical Impact of Global Greening in Science Advances
Chi Chen, together with Profs. Dan Li and Ranga Myneni published an article on how the global greening alters land surface temperature.… More
Dr. Rachel Abercrombie named a 2020 AGU Fellow
Dr. Rachel Abercrombie investigates all aspects of the earthquake rupture process, for example, how earthquakes start and grow, what factors govern the… More
Four EE Faculty are named Highly Cited Researchers by Web of Science
We are proud to announce that Dr. Ranga Myneni, Dr. Mark Friedl, Dr. Curtis Woodcock, and Dr. Mike Dietze have all been… More
Dr. Nilotpal Ghosh co-authors publication in EPSL
Geochemistry lab specialist Dr Nilotpal Ghosh co-authored a publication titled “Widespread silicic and alkaline magmatism synchronous with the Deccan Traps flood basalts,… More
Dr. Christoph Nolte publishes a research article in PNAS
The justification and targeting of conservation policy rests on reliable measures of public and private benefits from competing land uses. Advances in… More
Professor Hutyra publishes an article with EE students
Dr. Lucy Hutyra, in conjunction with several BU EE students published "A tree-planting decision support tool for urban heat mitigation." The paper… More
Dr. Suchi Gopal Selected as Visiting Professor to Indonesia, World Class Professor Program
Professor Suchi Gopal has been selected as a Visiting Professor in the Ocean and Coastal Remote Sensing, Integrated Laboratory, Diponegoro University (UNDIP)… More
Recent News from the Myneni-Knyazikhin Group
The following are some of the research activities of the Myneni-Knyazikhin group since the start of 2020. - Group members published 6… More