Department News

We are a very active teaching, research, and service department. Click links below to read more about what we have been doing lately.

Recent News Articles and Press Releases

• Graduate Student Erin Phillips Writer Receives Cheney Fellowship for Excellence in Study Abroad
• UW Researchers Contribute to Nature Paper that Examines Deep Ocean Rock Recovery
• UW Graduate Student Participates in Chief Scientist Training Program
• Two UW Professors Publish Textbook on Basic Principles of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks
• Graduate Student Robert Mahon Wins First Place in Inagural USGS/GSA Student Map Competition
• UW Geoscience Students in Demand at Rocky Mountain Rendezvous Job Fair
• Assistant Professor Cliff Riebe Receives Three NSF Grants Totalling $527k
• Team of Department Researchers Conducts Research of Caribbean Seafloor Via Remote-Operated Submarinearine
• Associate Professor Kenneth Sims Receives $209k NSF Grant
• UW Geophysics Project to Map Aquifers in Laramie and Snowy Ranges
• UW Will Host Rocky Mountain Rendezvous Job Fair For Geoscience Students Nationwide
• UW Researcher's Techniques Help Solve Martian Meteorites Mystery
• Spring 2013 Issue of Rocky Mountain Geology Published
• UW's Holbrook Receives Oceanography Honor
• UW's Randi Martinsen President-Elect of World's Largest International Geological Association
• Jackson State University Contingent to Study Hydrology at UW This Summer
• Graduate Student Justin LaForge Receives AAPG Weimer Family Grant
• Graduate Student Lynsey Spaeth Wins EGU Outstanding Student Poster Award
• Graduate Students Claire Lukens and Tyler Brown Receive $20k Research Fellowships
• Alumnus and Professor Publish Report on Spatial Variability of Coalbed Natural Gas Produced Water Quality
• UW Professor's Computer Models Designed to Enhance, Optimize Carbon Sequestration
• Graduate Student Will Fortin Wins AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award
• Assistant Professor Ye Zhang's Research Project Among Six Chosen for Second Cycle of Supercomputer Use