Undergrads

Undergraduate students in the School of Earth Sciences enjoy small major classes taught by our world-class faculty members. Our students learn to be critical thinkers who can read and evaluate the geological literature and to create new knowledge through their own research conducted in field, laboratory, and computer studies.

Opportunities for undergraduate research abound in the School of Earth Sciences. Research projects conducted by undergraduate students include travel for field work around the globe, to locations far and near, such as Antarctica, Argentina, Guatemala, Panama, Peru, Dominica, Canada, and Ohio. Undergraduate research projects have concerned such diverse topics as rock weathering in mountainous streams, morphological changes in Crinoidea across the Ordovician-Silurian boundary, phreatomagnetism of Jurassic pyroclastics of the Mawson Formation, ice-rafted debris as a paleoclimatic proxy in the North Atlantic ocean, chemical weathering in Taylor Valley, Antarctica, changes in Peruvian glacier area during the 20th century, and geochemistry of the Ferrar dolerite sills, Antarctica. Our students present the results of their research at university, regional, and national scientific meetings and have won prizes at all levels for their presentations.

For more than 100 years, baccalaureate graduates of the School of Earth Sciences have been successful in careers in the public and the private sector, in academia and in business. Today our graduates look forward to careers in the energy industry, environmental consulting, state and federal government agencies, in museums and parks, and in elementary and high school teaching. Our baccalaureate students who continue their education post-graduation enjoy success in our nation’s best graduate programs and many of our alumni and alumnae are now faculty members at other major universities and liberal arts colleges. Our undergraduate students have won national and international scholarships and fellowships including National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, Fulbright Fellowships, and Goldwater Scholarships.

Undergraduate students in the School of Earth Sciences enjoy small major classes taught by our world-class faculty members. Our students learn to be critical thinkers who can read and evaluate the geological literature and to create new knowledge through their own research conducted in field, laboratory, and computer studies.

Opportunities for undergraduate research abound in the School of Earth Sciences. Research projects conducted by undergraduate students include travel for field work around the globe, to locations far and near, such as Antarctica, Argentina, Guatemala, Panama, Peru, Dominica, Canada, and Ohio. Undergraduate research projects have concerned such diverse topics as rock weathering in mountainous streams, morphological changes in Crinoidea across the Ordovician-Silurian boundary, phreatomagnetism of Jurassic pyroclastics of the Mawson Formation, ice-rafted debris as a paleoclimatic proxy in the North Atlantic ocean, chemical weathering in Taylor Valley, Antarctica, changes in Peruvian glacier area during the 20th century, and geochemistry of the Ferrar dolerite sills, Antarctica. Our students present the results of their research at university, regional, and national scientific meetings and have won prizes at all levels for their presentations.

For more than 100 years, baccalaureate graduates of the School of Earth Sciences have been successful in careers in the public and the private sector, in academia and in business. Today our graduates look forward to careers in the energy industry, environmental consulting, state and federal government agencies, in museums and parks, and in elementary and high school teaching. Our baccalaureate students who continue their education post-graduation enjoy success in our nation’s best graduate programs and many of our alumni and alumnae are now faculty members at other major universities and liberal arts colleges. Our undergraduate students have won national and international scholarships and fellowships including National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, Fulbright Fellowships, and Goldwater Scholarships.