2017-12-07 - Graduate student Julia Cisneros won a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship this fall for a project titled “Dune morphology and dynamics in fluvial channels." Julia works with Professor Jim Best and her comment on winning this award is "I am very excited and proud to be awarded the...- 2017-12-07 - Assistant Professor Wendy Yang’s recent paper “Evaluating the Classical Versus and Emerging Conceptual Model of Peatland Methane Dynamics” published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles provides an improved tool for predicting methane emissions and understanding how they feedback into global climate...
2017-11-21 - Crunchflow, a powerful and multi-functional software package for modeling groundwater flow, solute transport, and subsurface chemical reactions, has received a prestigious R&D 100 award from R&D Magazine. Crunchflow has been created and maintain by lead developer Dr. Carl Steefel...
2017-11-14 - On November 3rd, 2017, Prof. R. James Kirkpatrick (PhD ’72), Dean of the College of Natural Sciences at Michigan State University, was presented with the department’s Alumni Achievement Award. Jim is well known to many current and former members of the department, having served UIUC for nearly 30...
2017-10-31 - NOVEMBER 4TH, 2017 Please join us for a grand event to mark the re-dedication of the Natural History Building! Geology alumni from all over will be converging on NHB for a re-dedication ceremony, tours, and plenty of socializing to celebrate the completion of this once-in-a-...
2017-10-10 - Prof. Jim Best will be the 2018 awardee of the Lamarck Medal from the European Geosciences Union! The Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal is established by the EGS Division on Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Paleontology in recognition of the scientific achievement of Jean Baptiste Lamarck. It...
2017-10-08 - In Spring, 2018, the Geology 415/515 Field Course will return to Scotland! After a semester of lectures and student presentations on the historical significance of Scottish geologists and localities, Professors Anders, Gregg, Stewart and Burmeister will lead a group of 22 students on a 10 day...
2017-07-12 - Department of Geology faculty and grad student offices have moved back into the Natural History Building. Faculty offices and the department central office are now located on the east side of the third floor. The building looks and feels wonderful! The building retains its historic...- 2017-07-03 - The department is very happy to congratulate Prof. Emerita Sue Kieffer, who has received the 2017 “Marcus Milling Legendary Geoscientist Award” of the American Geosciences Institute (AGI). "The Marcus Milling Legendary Geoscientist Medal is given to a recipient with consistent contributions of...
- 2017-07-03 - Jessica Conroy has been named a 2017 Kavli Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences. As part of this honor, she will participate in the Indonesian-American Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium that will be held July 18-21, 2017 in Ambon, Indonesia. The Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium series...
- 2017-06-30 - Dr. Jackie Wittmer Malinowsky, our lecturer in Paleontology and Sedimentary Geology for the last three and a half years, will be moving on to a tenure-track position at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Geneseo. We wish Jackie well as she embarks on the next phase of her career, and...
- 2017-05-03 - Gary Parker, the W. Hilton Johnson Professor of Geology and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences! Gary has been a key member of the Geology faculty since he moved to Illinois in 2005. He has brought great visibility to the UIUC...
- 2017-04-25 - A paper just published in Nature Geoscience documents a case of river piracy in the Canadian Yukon that occurred in May 2016, and has rerouted the course of one river into another. Jim Best and colleagues...
- 2017-03-17 - The department began a nationwide search for a Lecturer in Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and/or Paleobiology in March, 2017, with applications expected in early April, and interviews in late April. Applications will be accepted through the university's hiring system:...
- 2017-03-02 - Ralph E. Grim Professor and Dean of the College of LAS Feng Sheng Hu has been selected as a 2017 Fellow of the Ecological Society of America. Fellows are "members who have made outstanding contributions to a wide range of fields served by ESA, including, but not restricted to, those that advance or...