News and Events
News & Events
Ryan Pollyea to join department in fall, 2012 as a new Assistant Professor of Hydrogeology. March 7, 2012
"Grad student finds more than gold in internship" Northern Today article about grad student Kendle Fraley . March 7, 2012
Reed Scherer named Board of Trustees Professor - February 21, 2012
WISSARD Project's Sub-Ice Rover highlighted in the Trends and Innovations section of Earth magazine - June 5, 2011
Undergraduate student Pat Zenger earns NAGT-USGS Summer Internship - May 1, 2011
Clint Bailey wins Outstanding Senior Award - April 15, 2011
Robotic submarine built for Antarctica expedition - February 21, 2011
The WISSARD robotic submarine makes a big slpash at AGU - January 5, 2011
NOVA special to feature NIU geologists - December 15, 2010
NIU and DOER Marine unveil robotic submarine that will explore beneath Antarctic ice shelf. - December 15, 2010
Recent Ph.D. graduate Dr. Joe Peterson featured on giant billboard along I-290! - October 15, 2010
NIU soil judging team places third in the 54th annual American Society of Agronomy Region 3 Soil Judging Contest. Four GEOG students competed on team with Clint Bailey having the third highest individual score and the highest score of any competitor from an Illinois school. Read the summary . - October 8-9, 2010
Thompson/Reuters Science Watch ranks Nature paper with NIU researchers Ross Powell, Reed Scherer, Charlotte Sjunneskog, Stefan Vogel and NIU alumnus Ellen Cowan as among the top cited geoscience papers in 2009. - May 6, 2010
Ross Powell and the WISSARD project to drill into subglacial lakes in Antarctica. - March 25, 2010
Ross Powell named Board of Trustees Professor. Northern Today article / Video - March 22, 2010
Geology professors in high demand after earthquake. - February 15, 2010
Melissa Lenczewski plays a major role in developing the university's new Institute for the Study of the Environment, Sustainability and Energy - February 1, 2010
PhD candidate Joe Peterson publishes paper on battling juvenile T. rex - November2, 2009
Analysis by NIU student Michael Bramnik concludes geology played key role in rise of Jerusalem as holy city - October 19, 2009
CLAS 50th Anniversary: Geology alumnus Slawomir (Slawek) Tulaczyk (M.S. 1993) is one of the 50 distinguished Alumni honored
Ross Powell and Reed Scherer develop a robotic submarine to explore beneath the Ross Ice shelf - October 5, 2009
Mark Fischer and M.S. student Adam Smith have their research highlighted on the website of the American Chemical Society's Petroleum Research Fund - August 17, 2009
Reed Scherer has been made a Presidential Research Professor in recognition of his outstanding contributions to scientific research - April 13, 2009
2009 North-Central GSA Conference - April 1-3, 2009 Held at NIU's Rockford campus
Research of Ross Powell and Reed Scherer featured in Chicago Tribune - March 19, 2009
New evidence shows past global warming impacted Antarctic ice - March 19, 2009 NIU's Ross Powell is co-lead author of the article in the journal Nature .
NIU geologists contribute to latest version of Google Earth - February 9, 2009
Record number of NIU Geology students present at AGU Conference in San Francisco - Fall 2008
Students join the 100+ club with the Geoprobe - Summer 2008
Understanding global warming - September 2008 NIU students become globetrotters on quest to understand global warming
Jurassic Jackpot - August 2008 NIU students working with Burpee Museum help dig up cache of dinosaur fossils
Matt Konfirst, a geology doctoral student, wins a Fulbright Fellowship - May 2008 Matt will be researching climate change in Germany.