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.