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.
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Department News
Save the Date! Fall 2024 Graduate Talks
Mark your calendars! Our Fall 2024 Graduate Talk Dates are set! The names of the presenters are soon to come. Food will… More
Professor Ranga Myneni publishes in PLOS ONE
Professor Ranga Myneni of the BU Department of Earth & Environment published a research article titled "Carbon system state determines warming potential… More
BU Institute for Global Sustainability Graduate Summer Fellows Present Research Projects
The Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability welcomed Boston University faculty and students as our talented Graduate Student Summer Fellows presented their… More
Professor Robert Kaufmann featured in BU Today
Earth & Environment Professor Robert Kaufmann was featured in the July 15th issue of BU Today to discuss the impact of regulations… More
Associate Professor Dr. Cedric Fichot’s research group publishes in Remote Sensing of Environment and Environmental Science & Technology
Recently graduated PhD student, Dr. Joshua P. Harringmeyer, graduate student Matthew Weiser, research specialist Dr. Nilotpal Ghosh and Associate Professor Dr. Cédric… More
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