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What's Shaking at the Seismology Lab?
From continental-scale studies to experiments on a single stream, researchers at the seismology lab are finding more ways to learn about Earth processes from the analysis of seismic data.

ESCI Staff Visit Pittsburgh for GSA
Jennifer Petrie and Kaleigh Swift attended GSA in Pittsburgh this year to staff a graduate recruitment booth.

Recovery and Identification of Minnesota’s 10th Known Meteorite
Emeritus Professor Calvin Alexander has helped positively identify a new meteorite found by a community member in Minnesota.

Recent Ph.D. Grads Hired as Faculty
A group of recently graduated and soon to be graduating Ph.D. students have gone on to be hired immediately into faculty positions at institutions across the country.

Adjunct Professor Annia Fayon in First Cohort of UHP Fellows
The program is open to all tenure and non-tenure track faculty across the university. Annia is one of only six in the inaugural cohort of University Honors Program Faculty Fellows.

Welcome New Faculty Member: Emily Beverly
Assistant Professor Emily Beverly’s research focuses on understanding environmental drivers of human and hominin evolution.
Celebrating 150 years of Geosciences

2022 is a special year! It marks 150 years since the first geoscience course was taught at the University of Minnesota! In 1872, professor Edward H. Twining M.A. taught the first courses in geology and mineralogy. 1872 also marks the establishment of the Minnesota Geological and Natural History Survey by the Minnesota State Government. We are celebrating 150 years of Geosciences with our colleagues at the Bell Museum and the Minnesota Geological Survey who are also decedents of the first Geoscientists of the University of Minnesota.
See how we're celebrating 150 years of Geosciences