2014

Bradford Hager won the 2013 Lehmann Medal of the American Geophysical Union, receiving his award at the Fall 2013 AGU meeting in San Francisco this past December. Here: Jerry X. Metrovica's award citation and Professor Hager's response. EAPS News

EAPS Congratulations: Benjamin Weiss to be promoted to Full Professor; Oliver Jagoutz to be promoted to Associate Professor. EAPS News

EAPS researchers Professor Sam Bowring and graduate student Seth Burgess find that the end-Permian extinction happened in 60,000 years — much faster than earlier estimates. MITnews

It’s been a bone-chilling two weeks here in Cambridge during MIT’s Independent Activities Period (IAP), and thanks to Course 12.310 ‘An Introduction to Weather Forecasting,’ twenty new amateur forecasters can tell you that the northwest winds behind last...

Graduate student Neesha Schnepf was a panelist at the 2014 Northeastern Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) earlier this month. EAPS News

A new map of the solar system’s asteroids from researchers at MIT and the Paris Observatory shows more diversity than previously thought. EAPS News

A new map of the solar system’s asteroids from researchers at MIT and the Paris Observatory shows more diversity than previously thought. EAPS News

MIT, Singapore researchers Jason Cohen (PhD '10) and Senior Research Scientist Chien Wang use a new method to find that black carbon emissions are much higher than majority of global air-pollution studies. EAPS News

EAPS congratulations to Assistant Professor of Engineering Systems and Atmospheric Chemistry Noelle Selin for her appointment to the Global Young Academy. EAPS News

Seismologist Germán Prieto and co-authors show a rupture of the San Andreas Fault could generate three times more shaking in Los Angeles than surrounding regions. EAPS News