Professor Mihai Ducea was recently named an honorary member of the Academy of Romanian Scientists and was also awarded the Discipline Chief Professorship (funded by the Dida fellowship) at the China University of Geosciences in Wuhan, a month per year apppointment between 2016-2019....

Joining past inductee George Gaylord Simpson, Professor Emeritus Spencer Titley will be inducted into the East High (Denver) Alumni Heritage Hall on September 20. This honor recognizes the accomplishments of the school's most notable alumni. Congratulations!

Regents Professor Emeritus George Davis is featured in a video by the UA Office of Instruction and Assessment about the collaborative-learning-spaces approach he took teaching undergraduates  last semester: Structural Geology with Dr. Davis: A Premier Example of Active Learning....

Professor Andrew Cohen is leading a team that has determined the decrease in fishery productivity in Lake Tanganyika since the 1950s is a consequence of global warming rather than just overfishing. Read the UA News story here.

PhD Student Cherie Achilles was awarded a prestigious Lloyd V. Berkner Space Policy Internship. Cherie will spend 10 weeks in Washington, D.C. working on space research policy under the aegis of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine's Space Studies Board....

Susan Beck, Colton Lynner, and Rob Porritt are in Ecuador as part of a Rapid Array Mobilization Project (RAMP) deployment, and Rob has created a blog so we can follow their progress. Catch all the updates!

Professor Jon Pelletier and Caitlin Orem (PhD '14) are part of a team that did before-and-after studies of how severe wildfire affects short- and long-term erosion rates.

Lujendra Ojha, BS 2012, received an honorary fellowship award from the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR). Lujendra's award is for his collaborative work to discover water on Mars, which he did as an undergraduate in the UA Geosciences Department. He will receive his award at the 20th...