2025 Newsletter Issues
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
Professor Nathan Phillips comments on Harvard Professor’s ties to oil firm
Professor Nathan Phillips was featured in The Guardian responding to Harvard Professor Jody Freeman's role in lobbying the SEC on behalf of the fossil fuel company… More
Professor Adil Najam named as new President of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) International
Dr. Adil Najam, the inaugural dean (2014-2022) of Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies and now Dean Emeritus and Professor of International… More
Asst. Professor Andrew Bell Leads Study on Balancing Agriculture & Conservation – Shows Women Are Integral to Sustainability
As BU Today writes, Asst. Professor Bell’s study “used video games to test ways of balancing agriculture and conservation -- and found… More
Yue Qin awarded Outstanding Student Presentation
Yue Qin, a fourth-year doctoral candidate in E&E, has received the Outstanding Student Presentation Award AMS's 24th Symposium on Boundary-Layers & Turbulence.… More
E&E earthquake expert on the Turkey earthquake
E&E professor Rachel Abercrombie spoke with The Brink about the devastation in Turkey and Syria following Monday's 7.8-magnitude earthquake. "The problem is… More
Professor Cutler Cleveland is Founder and Director of New IGS Visualizing Energy Project
Dr. Cleveland has assisted in launching a new energy project through the BU Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS). "Visualizing Energy works to… More
Research Professor Rachel Abercrombie elected to AGU
Research Professor Rachel Abercrombie was elected President of the American Geophysical Union's (AGU) Seismology division. Dr. Abercrombie's term is set to begin… More
Associate Professor Anne Short Gianotti and PhD Candidate Claudia Diezmartinez Peregrina publish in Nature Communications
Abstract Climate change is one of the most important ethical issues of our time. Urban scholars and policymakers now recognise the need… More
Professor Benjamin Sovacool elected to The National Academies’ Board on Environmental Change and Policy
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have invited E&E Professor and Director of BU’s Institute for Global Sustainability to serve as… More
IGS Director and EE Professor Dr. Benjamin Sovacool Spearheading Joint Appointment Program
Boston University is teaming up with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to offer joint appointments that encourages… More