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.
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Department News
Associate Professor Dan Li Awarded 2022 Timothy Oke Award
Associate Professor in the department of Earth & Environment, Dan Li, was awarded the International Association for Urban Climate's 2022 Timothy Oke… More
BU Joins BOEM, NOAA to support ecosystem-based development on the US Outer Continental Shelf
The United States has a vast, submerged outer continental shelf (OCS) that is rich in both living and non-living resources. It is… More
Professor Suchi Gopal & Les Kaufman selected for NSF Grant
Abstract Large-scale CoPe: Reducing Climate Risks with Equitable Nature-based Solutions: Engaging Communities on Reef-Lined Coasts This project supports US national interests to… More
Lecturer Rick Reibstein, JD, publishes a new book!
Earth & Environment Lecturer Rick Reibstein, JD, had published Reconstructing Environmental Governance: The Chance to Choose a Better Future. About the Book:… More
Professors Suchi Gopal and Nathan Phillips publish with PhD Candidate Jessica Wright
Jessica Wright, PhD candidate in Earth Sciences in the Department of Earth & Environment, has published The BosWash Infrastructure Biome and Energy… More
Professors Suchi Gopal and Magaly Koch publish with MA graduate Mira Kelly-Fair
Mira Kelly-Fair, a recent Master of Arts graduate in Earth & Environment, and incoming PhD student with Professor Suchi Gopal, recently published… More
Students Present to Brookline Zero Emissions Advisory Board
Five students from EE 538, Research for Environmental Agencies and Organizations, presented to a meeting of the Zero Emissions Advisory Board of… More
Congratulations to Associate Professor Dan Li!
A special congratulations to Dr. Dan Li, who has been promoted from the rank of assistant professor to associate professor. Associate Professor… More
Collaborating with wildlife: new research finds that wild animals participate in their own preservation
Why do many wildlife conservation and management programs struggle to meet their goals of protecting threatened species and preventing conflicts between humans… More
ISE Director Benjamin Sovacool recipient of 2022 Energy and Environment Specialty Group Professional Geographer Award
ISE Director Benjamin Sovacool paper, Dispossessed by decarbonisation: Reducing vulnerability, injustice, and inequality in the lived experience of low-carbon pathways published in… More