2024

Bea Chadwick ’27 holding the winner’s trophy at the second annual Mineral Cup tournament.
Contests, Students
Mineral Cup II delivers nuggets of knowledge and swagger
The second annual tournament featured persuasive and sometimes humorous arguments for little-known natural resources. All hail molybdenite.
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2023

Newly tenured Denison faculty, left to right: Sarah Supp, Chris David Westover-Muñoz, Matthew Jungers, and Ojeya Cruz Banks.
Featured News
Denison welcomes faculty to tenured positions
Tenure has been awarded to five members of the faculty, who will be promoted to associate professor in fall 2023.
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Faculty
Prof. Dave Goodwin present research on COVID economic models
Earth sciences professor Dave Goodwin applies his research modeling expertise to the COVID puzzle.
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2022

Rachel Jankowski '22
Awards & Honors
Rachel Jankowski '22 awarded Fulbright Research grant
As a Fulbright grantee, Rachel Jankowski '22 will conduct environmental science research in Poland.
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Katharine Hayhoe
Lectures & Discussions
Top climate scientist to speak at Anderson Science Lecture
What does climate change mean for people and the places we live?
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Great Circle Earthworks
Faculty
Students study clues linking comet & ancient Hopewell culture
Earth Sciences Prof. Erik Klemetti leads students in research on a catastrophic event linked to Native American cultures 1,600 years ago.
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Volcano eruption
In the News
Prof. Erik Klemetti: Tonga eruption won't affect climate
Professor Erik Klemetti says the sulfur emitted by the Tonga eruption is below the threshold to have a "significant impact on climate in general."
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2021

Class group photo
Field Trips
Fall 2021 Field Trip to Ironbound Island on the Coast of Maine
Earth and Environmental Sciences Faculty and students charted a boat to take them 3 miles off the shore from Bar Harbor to Ironbound Island.
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Lectures & Discussions
Interdisciplinary Faculty Roundtable on Climate Report
The August IPCC report on climate science laid out a range of global climate challenges, hear how five Denison faculty respond on Thursday November 4.
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Denison professor and student in a chemistry lab
Featured News
Denison receives $650,000 NSF grant to aid low-income STEM students
The National Science Foundation has awarded Denison $650,000 to enable talented low-income students to pursue majors and careers in STEM fields.
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Science Festival
Fairs & Festivals
Science Festival organized by the Black Latinx Asian Science
The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences put together a booth at the Science Festival
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Denison students and faculty utilizing the JEOL Scanning Electron Microscope
Featured News
Denison University awarded $400K NSF grant for Scanning Electron Microscope
Denison has been awarded a $400K NSF grant to obtain a state-of-the-art scanning electron microscope that deepens student and faculty research.
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A field trip brings students in close contact with layered sediments and water erosion at the Cumberland Plateau.
Featured News
New STEM-based program: Earth and Environmental Sciences
Denison University announces a new program, Earth and Environmental Sciences (EESC), a STEM-based approach to exploring Earth.
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Newark, Ohio
Internships
Uncovering a literary treasure
Denison students report on uncovered history of an influential Black writer in Newark
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2020

Student News
Kelly Rose '96 helps predict and prevent oil spills
Kelly Rose '96, geology, geo-data science researcher with NETL’s Research Innovation Center uses machine learning to prevent oil spills.
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Yellowstone
Faculty
Are Geysers a Signal of Magma Intrusion Under Yellowstone?
Geo Prof. Erik Klemetti discusses the possibility of new magma intruding under the Yellowstone caldera.
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