2020-05-17 - Check out this year's Geology Department Slide Show, showcasing the highlights of our year! This presentation was created by Lana Holben, with help from Brooke Dykstra and Marjie Cone.
2020-05-16 - The Geology Department congratulates all of our graduates via a Zoom commencement ceremony.
2020-04-28 - PhD student Mike DeLucia’s work on the erosion history of the Great Unconformity was featured in an online episode of the PBS series Eons. Check it out here!
2020-04-01 - New technologies allow the Department of Geology to continue field education with virtual field trips.
2020-03-27 - Students who the proper technological resources to complete online classes for the remainder of the Spring semester should contact the Student Assistance Center by emailing helpdean@illinois.edu or calling (217) 333-0050. They will work with you...
2020-03-11 - Gillen Wood’s new book ‘Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and the Secrets of its Ice’ explores early expeditions to this vast land of cold.
2020-03-11 - Julia Cisneros and Jim Best have led a paper just published in Nature Geoscience detailing the shape of dunes in the world’s largest rivers
2020-02-27 - Dr. Stewart was selected to receive the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching!
2020-02-25 - Prof. Willy Guenthner was awarded the 2020 Charles and Nancy Naeser Prize by the International Standing Committee on Thermochronology.
2020-02-13 - Congratulations to Dr. Trish Gregg for being named a Helen Corley Petit Scholar by the College of LAS!
2020-02-12 - The Department of Geology remembers Dr. Jim Kirkpatrick, who passed away in January 2020.
2020-02-12 - This week Dr. Bruce Fouke was awarded the 2020 Whitman Fellowship at the Marine Biological Laboratory and the 2020 Yellowstone Superintendent's International Award.
2020-01-30 - Geology Graduate Student Minfei Chen Wins the Outstanding Student Presentation Award at the 2019 AGU Meeting
2020-01-27 - $2.5 million software package renewed with Department of Geology and ISGS.
2020-01-24 - Dr. Easterling talks about the benefits of curiosity-driven and convergent research at a talk at NHB.