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
PhD Students Chi Chen and Taejin Park Co-Author Article on Global Greening in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
PhD students Chi Chen and Taejin Park (graduated Aug 2019), together with Prof. Myneni co-authored an article in the inaugural issue of… More
Arctic Worlds: A Symposium on the Environment and Humanities
The Pardee Center, CAS, and the Center for the Humanities are co-hosting a full-day symposium on February 26 titled "Arctic Worlds: A… More
Seeing The Invisible: From imagined to virtual urban landscapes
Dr. Suchi Gopal, Dr. Nathan Phillips, and PhD candidates Yaxiong Ma and Jessica Wright published an article in Volume 98 of Cities:… More
Earth & Environment professors Knyazikhin and Myneni compile virtual book
The book titled “Remote Sensing of Vegetation Leaf Area” by Yuri Knyazikhin and Ranga Myneni is an edited compilation of lecture notes and… More
Professor Bruce Anderson discovers ocean/atmosphere climate variation spanning the entire North Pacific
Similar to its equatorial brethren the El Nino/Southern Oscillation, this newly-discovered climate variation--which Earth & Environment Professor Bruce Anderson named the Ebessan/Pacific Precession (EPP) in honor… More
Students present ideas for improving food justice, local and sustainable food, and community and urban farming at the Massachusetts Statehouse
On December 4th students in the class Research for Environmental Agencies and Organizations presented their ideas for fostering sustainable farming to benefit… More
Emily Chua, Fulweiler Lab PhD Student, awarded a position as a Technology Business & Marketing Student
Emily Chua, of Dr. Wally Fulweiler's lab, has been awarded a spot in a new program run by BU's Office of Technology… More
Christoph Nolte publishes a Conservation Letter for The Society of Conservation Biology
Christoph Nolte, along with Alta De Vos and Oliver Schöttker published a conservation letter called "Cost-effectiveness of public policy for the long-term… More
Three Earth & Environment Professors Recognized as Highly Cited Researchers 2019
The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Science Group has recognized Profs. Myneni (Geosciences and Environment & Ecology), Friedl (Cross Field)… More
PhD Student Chi Chen and Professor Myneni’s work on Cover of Bild der Wissenschaft Magazine
The year 2019 science highlights in the December issue of popular science magazine in Germany (Bild der Wissenschaft) features on its cover… More