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
Students Present Innovative Energy Program Ideas to Local And National Energy Experts
On February 22nd, Daniel Daponte and Valentina Vaney presented their ideas for municipal action to accelerate the adoption of solar and novel… More
Professor Kaufmann provides his expertise on Green Finance with MoneyGeek
Professor Robert Kaufmann had a chance to sit down with the people at MoneyGeek to discuss Green Finance--and ways that we can… More
PhD Candidate Claudia Mazur awarded 2022 ESA Graduate Student Policy Award
PhD candidate Claudia Mazur was awarded the 2022 ESA Graduate Student Policy Award. She is a member of the Fulweiler Lab where… More
PhD Candidate Adam Pollack & Professor Robert Kaufmann published in Ecological economics
The market's ability to cope with storm-related risk partially depends on whether this risk is reflected accurately in house prices. We assess… More
Professor Lucy Hutyra and PhD candidate Luca Morreale published in Nature Communications
Earth & Environment Professor Lucy Hutyra and Graduate Student Fellow at the Hariri Institute & PhD candidate Luca Morreale, in collaboration with… More
Four Faculty Members recognized as Highly Cited Researchers
Four faculty members at Boston University’s Department of Earth & Environment have been recognized by Web of Science as Highly Cited Researchers… More
Earth & Environment is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor
Boston University’s Department of Earth and Environment is hiring a tenure-track Assistant professor in modeling of the coastal marine environment, starting 7/1/2022,… More
Nilotpal Ghosh co-authors Laurentia-Gondwana collision study in Palaeo3
Geochemistry specialist Dr. Nilotpal Ghosh co-authored a paper titled “Sandstone petrographic and mudstone REE and Nd-isotopic evidence for Middle Pennsylvanian arrival of… More
PhD Candidate Alicia Zhang and Lecturer Rick Reibstein presented comments to the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council
Ph.D. Candidate Alicia Zhang and Lecturer Rick Reibstein presented comments to the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council on August 18, 2021, recommending… More
Three E&E faculty promoted to Professors!
A special congratulations to Wally Fulweiler, Mike Dietze, and Lucy Hutyra for reaching the rank of Professor! They ecstatically shared their achievements… More