News & Events
- PhD candidate Joe Peterson publishes paper on battling juvenile T. rex
- Analysis by NIU student Michael Bramnik concludes geology played key role in rise of Jerusalem as holy city
- 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 top explore beneath the Ross Ice shelf
- 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.
- $1 million NSF grant - January 2008
Over the next five years, NIU will take about 45 middle and high school science teachers on geologic field trips to Mexico, aiming to bring back culturally relevant and exciting lessons for Hispanic students.
- Antarctic ANDRILL polar research - April 2007
From beneath Antarctica’s Ross Sea, scientists retrieve pristine record of the continent’s climate cycles