Resources
  • Max Joins Department
    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 we are very grateful for her boundless energy and many contributions to our programs during her time...
  • Parker Elected to NAS
    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 sediment dynamics program that spans CEE, Geology and GGIS, has helped us build faculty strength in...
  • Best_River_Piracy
    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 report on how and why this piracy occurred, and on its cause due to glacier retreat as a result of...
  • 2017 Lecturer Search
    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:...
  • Hu ESA Fellow
    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 apply ecological knowledge in academics, government, non-profit organizations, and the broader...
  • Alum Board Meeting 2016
    2017-02-20 - The Department of Geology Alumni Board met on November 11th, 2016. Board members reconnected with campus, toured the Natural History Building, were briefed about current operations of the department, and discussed trends in geoscience and employment.   Left: Board members and faculty visiting one of the new classrooms in NHB, which is in the final stages of a complete renovation. From left...