News

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Recent News Articles and Press Releases

• Rocky Mountain Rendezvous 2021

• Associate Professor Dario Grana named to Wyoming Excellence Chair

• Dr Susan Swapp named a Society of Economic Geologists Fellow 

• Crystal Luna receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to study marine geology and geophysics for her Masters degre

• Professor Tom Minckley and lead-artist Patrick Kikut (Visual and Literary Arts) still collaborating on the 2019 SCREE Expedition

• Professor Neil Humphrey: UW President's Speaker 2020

• Professor John Kaszuba selected as John and Jane Wold Centennial Chair in Energy

• Professor JJ Shinker for being honoured as a "Top Prof" at the 41st annual Top Prof Night.

• Undergraduate students Nadia Dworian, Andrew Miller and Abigail Pirkle win the Mineralogical Society of America's Undergraduate Prize

• Jackalope Repaired, Finally Sails Again

• Tom Ashley wins AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award at the 2019 fall AGU meeting

• Jay Chapman suggests Arizona once looked like Tibet

• Congratulations to Ken Sims: Thumbs-up Award

• Homecoming 2019

• Professor Mark Clementz elected Head of Department

• Porosity Production in Weathered Rock: Where Volumetric Strain Dominates over Chemical Mass Loss

• Congratulations to John and Brad on their promotions 

• Carol Frost elected 101st president of the Mineralogical Society of America

• Rising From the Plains- A Geologic Companion: Geol 2220 students win 2019 Phi Beta Kappa award

• Nate Maier and Neil Humphrey lead tem discovering ice is sliding off Greenland Ice Sheet 

• Mike Cheadle Exploring the Oceans on PBS- Wyoming Chronicle

• Geology and Geophysics Faculty receive Science Initiative seed grants

• College Factual Ranks UW Department of Geology and Geophysics best value for money

• Graduate Student Nathan Swain receives two grants

• Connections between ocean dynamics, droughts and climate change

• Grass-eating mammals became more diverse about 6 million years ago due to shifts in atmospheric circulation

• Discovery of an isotopically distinct Zealandia-Antarctic mantle domain in the Southern Ocean

• The Jackalope Undergoing Repairs for a New Voyage

• Honours Convocation-McKenzee Peterson

• Professor Barbara John awarded a 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award

• UW Graduate student Minh Nguyen recently received the UW Alumni Association (UWAA) Graduate Scholarship

• UW Mortar Board Honors ‘Top Prof’ Tyler Brown

• Congratulations to Brandon, Ye and Po upon promotion