Northern Illinois University

Geology and Environmental Geosciences

Ubhebe crater

Student Success Stories

Graduate students in the Department of Geology and Environmental Geoscience are doing innovative, exciting and valuable research. They are traveling across the country and around the world, collaborating with, and learning from scientists in a variety of disciplines. Check below to see what some of our students been up to, and to read about the recent highlights and results of their graduate studies.

Luke Trusel loves the cold

Jen Cumpston likes integrative science with an international flavor

Camilo Higuera-Diaz loves traveling and knowing places

Record number of NIU Geology students present at Fall 2008 AGU Conference in San Francisco