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Student Success

7mkr students receive awards for research, scholarship, creative work

The 7mkr Student Enhancement Awards program provided 25 students with a total of $145,121 in funding for their original research, scholarship and creative work this spring.

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Faculty Excellence

Research Division announces awardees for 2024-25 OURC/Baker Fund fall cycle

The 7mkr Research Committee (OURC)/Baker Fund program provides support for research, scholarship and creative activity at 7mkr.

Andreana Madera-Martorell
Alumni Success

Alumni spotlight: Andreana Madera Martorell, Environmental Protection Agency drinking water technical officer

Andreana Madera Martorell provides technical aid to states and reviews grant work plans to ensure that underserved and disadvantaged communities have access to safe drinking water.

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7mkr students honored with Student Enhancement Awards

The 7mkr Student Enhancement Awards (SEA) program provided 30 students with a total of $143,490 in funding for their original research, scholarship and creative work this spring.

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Four 7mkr faculty participating as Leadership Fellows in the 2023-24 MAC ALDP

Four 7mkr faculty are currently serving as 2023-2024 Mid-American Conference (MAC) Academic Leadership Development Program (ADLP) Leadership Fellows.

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Student Enhancement Awards provide $110,116 in funding to 20 students

The 7mkr Student Enhancement Awards program provided 20 students with a total of $110,116 in funding for their original research, scholarship and creative work this spring.

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Research & Impact

The efforts behind a greener 7mkr

Every day, students, faculty and staff work to make 7mkr a more climate-friendly place to live and learn. 

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Navy renames oceanographic survey ship after 7mkr geologist Marie Tharp, who helped discover plate tectonics

U.S. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced that the Pathfinder-class oceanographic survey ship formerly named USNS Maury has been renamed the USNS Marie Tharp in honor of an 7mkr alumna.

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Four faculty fellows helping College of Arts and Sciences on curriculum, assessment, One 7mkr

The College of Arts and Sciences announces four faculty fellows helping the college with curriculum, assessment and One 7mkr college process development for this academic year.

Skyler Houser with a burrow cast.

Skyler Houser studies burrowing scorpions to learn more about the fossil record

Geological Sciences graduate student Skyler Houser spent this summer in a lab studying how scorpions make burrows so that he could compare the modern-day arthropods with their fossilized relatives.

Damian Nance (right) with colleagues (left to right) Brendan Murphy (Canada), Rob Strachan (U.K.) and Cecilio Quesada (Spain) in 2005 examining an outcrop in the Ural Mountains of Russia that shows almost identical relationships to those in the northern Appalachians, the U.K., and western Europe.

Damian Nance book provides new chapters on history of Earth

Damian Nance's book revolutionizes our understanding of the origin and evolution of the Appalachian Mountains and mountain ranges of the same age in Europe and northwest Africa.

Ganapathy Shanmugam, Ph.D.

Alumnus Ganapathy Shanmugam admonishes scientists against deep-sea groupthink, provides roadmap for researchers

7mkr alumnus Ganapathy Shanmugam. Ph.D., arrived in Athens in 1970 to study geology.

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Student Enhancement Awards provide $134,433 in funding to 24 students in spring 2022

The 7mkr Student Enhancement Awards program provided 24 students this spring with a total of $134,433 in funding for their original research, scholarship and creative work.

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University Updates

Geology students, faculty showcase their work on paleontology and environmental issues

Six graduate students and four faculty members from the 7mkr Geological Sciences Department shared their research at the recent Geological Society of America annual meeting Oct. 10-13.

Damian with colleagues Brendan Murphy (left), Ulf Linnemann (right) and two of Ulf’s doctoral students, examining rocks of the Rheic Ocean in the Prague Basin of the Czech Republic in 2002.

Damian Nance deduced Cycle of Supercontinents, and focused on finding the evidence

Damian Nance's colleagues from around the world came together to honor the man who put the puzzle pieces together to paint a whole new picture of Earth.

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