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
Diversity & Inclusion Grad Forum
Earth & Environment Professor Lucy Hutyra Wins a 2023 MacArthur “Genius Grant”
"...Hutyra focuses on understanding the impacts of urbanization on climate and ecosystems, studying how urban environments influence trees and the carbon cycle,… More
Cho Kangjoon Graduate Talks
Join us in our first Fall Graduate Talks.On this occasion, Cho Kangjoon will be presenting his work on: Mapping land cover changes… More
Prof. Ian Sue Wing Writes on Extreme Heat Impacts for Older Adults
Along with Deborah Carr, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Innovation in Social Science, and Giacomo Falchetta, Postdoctoral Research… More
E&E PhD Students Nia Bartolucci and Claudia Diezmartínez Peregina Named 2023 Switzer Environmental Fellows
Nia Bartolucci and Claudia Diezmartínez Peregina were both named Switzer Network Fellows for 2023! 🌊 Nia studies how climate change and other… More
Professor Sucharita Gopal Publishes on Opioid Mortality, Uses Spatial Durbin Data Model
Dr. Sucharita Gopal recently published on opioid mortality. Her paper emphasizes the importance of employing a spatial Durbin panel data model for… More
Prof. Ian Sue Wing Publishes on Mismatch of Adaptation & Mitigation Strategies
Professor Ian Sue Wing published recently on the mismatch of adaptation and mitigation strategies - specifically, how Air Conditioning is both a… More
Mark Friedl named CAS William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Mathematics and Science
The William Goodwin Aurelio Professorship in Mathematics and Science is given to an outstanding faculty member working in any mathematical or natural… More
Asst. Prof. Xiaozhou Ruan named 2023 Hariri Institute Research Fellow
Assistant Professor Xiaozhou Ruan has been named a 2023 Junior Faculty Fellow by the Hariri Institute at BU! As the Institute noted,… More
Prof. Duncan FitzGerald wins the CAS Templeton Award for Excellence in Student Advising and Mentoring
Congratulations to Professor Duncan FitzGerald! You can check out more about his work here. You can also check out a student-written perspective… More