2025 Newsletter Issues
November 12th Events, Achievements, Opportunities, and more!
October 28th Spooky Scary Climate Change! Events, opportunities, UROP achievements, and more!
October 15th Autumn Events! Field trips, opportunities, career fair recap, and more!
September 30th Nearly October! Events, publications, fun, and more!
September 16th Setting Sail! Faculty spotlights, events for YOU, recap of welcome, and more!
September 2nd Welcome Back! Summer recap, welcome events, department updates, and more!
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.
Newsletter Archive
Department News
E&E celebrates the Class of 2020
On May 20, the Department of Earth & Environment celebrated the Class of 2020. Here's how we honored our students, their achievements,… More
Professor Robert Kaufmann is quoted in BBC Mundo
Professor Robert Kaufmann is quoted in BBC Mundo article,"Coronavirus y cambio climático: por qué la pandemia no es realmente tan buena para… More
COVID-19 & Cities: Pollution & the Environment Wednesday, May 13 1pm-2pm ET
Please join the Boston University Initiative on Cities (IOC) for a webinar to learn about the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on… More
GE 534 Students Present to State Energy Officials
On May 8, students in GE 534, Research for Environmental Agencies and Organizations, presented their work to 21 officials of the Massachusetts… More
Leveraging Big Data and Analytics to Improve Food, Energy, and Water System Sustainability
Professor Suchi Gopal published an article in Frontiers in Big Data with Joshua Pitts of the Global Development Policy Center, Yaxiong Ma… More
Professor Suchi Gopal serves as a panelist for Boston University Earth Day
Suchi Gopal was a panelist at Boston University's Online Earth Day 2020! She joined BU's Sustainability online in commemoration of the 50th… More
Remote-Sensing of Surface-Level Ozone Sensitivity to Nitrogen Oxides and Volatile Organic Compound
Dr. Geddes is a Co-Investigator on a NASA grant that has been selected for funding! The total award is for $717,304 and… More
E&E Coronavirus Update
The Department of Earth & Environment continues its normal operations, while instruction has moved on-line and personnel work remotely. If you have… More
In Memoriam: Dr. T.R. “Laksh” Lakshmanan
On February 20th, Earth and Environment Emeritus Professor T.R. "Laksh" Lakshmanan passed away. An institution builder at Boston University, Professor Lakshmanan was the… More
Professor Robert Kaufmann and 2018 BA/MA graduate Caitlin Connelly publish two papers in Nature Energy
Dr. Robert Kaufmann, whose research focuses on global climate change, world oil markets, and land-use changes, published two papers in Nature Energy… More