2025 Newsletter Issues
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
PhD candidate Matthew Weiser and Associate Professor Dr. Cédric Fichot publish in ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology
PhD candidate, Matthew Weiser and Associate Professor Dr. Cédric Fichot published a paper “Improving Estimates of Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) Concentration from… More
PhD Student Abby Whittington receives NSF Research Fellowship!
Abby Whittington, PhD student in Cédric Fichot’s lab was awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRFP), a prestigious fellowship that… More
Zoe Hughes Promoted to Research Associate Professor!
Congratulations to Zoe Hughes on your well earned promotion to Research Associate Professor! Zoe Hughes is a coastal oceanographer and geomorphologist. Through… More
Bright Olunusi awarded E&E Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award!
The 2024 Earth and Environment Outstanding Teaching Fellow prize is awarded to Bright Olunusi! As a teaching assistant in E&E, Bright’s students… More
Phoebe Wilcox awarded the Franklin C. Erickson Prize!
This year’s recipient of the Franklin C. Erickson Prize for an outstanding 3rd year student is Phoebe Wilcox! Phoebe is majoring in… More
Alexander Vick awarded the Treicy Torres Prize Memorial Environmental Justice Award!
Treicy Torres was an Environmental Analysis and Policy major when she passed away in 2017 before completing her senior year. Treicy was… More
Tessa Keeney awarded the Dr. Tiruvarur R. Lakshmanan and Dr. Lata Chatterjee Environmental Analysis & Policy Prize!
The Dr. T R Lakshmanan and Dr. Lata Chatterjee Environmental Analysis & Policy Prize is named in honor of Earth & Environment… More
Drew Bouchie awarded Dr. Farouk El-Baz Environmental Science Prize!
The Dr. Farouk El-Baz Environmental Science Prize is named after the Founding Director of BU’s Center for Remote Sensing. Dr. El-Baz has… More
Alice Ni awarded College Prize for Excellence in Earth & Environment!
The College Prize in Earth and Environment is the highest honor for our undergraduates, awarded to one student each year who demonstrates… More
Congratulations to Zhenpeng Zuo and Sarah Black – Outstanding Teaching Fellows!
Congratulations to Zhenpeng Zuo and Sarah Black for receiving the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Teaching Fellow Awards! Zhenpeng Zuo… More