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Provost's citation and Michael Brown's remarks at Convocation 2025

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Graduate Student Elizabeth Huang recently competed in the final round of the Graduate School's 3 Minute Thesis competition. Click to watch her presentation.

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James Farquhar Named 2025 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science read more...
Jay Kaufman is the recipient of the 2026 the Francis J. Pettijohn Medal for Sedimentology, awarded by the Society for Sedimentary Geology.
Dr. Sujay Kaushal was named the Goldschmidt Conference F. Earl Ingersol Lecturer for the upcoming meeting in July in Montreal.
Lori Willhite (Ph.D '25) was awarded the 2025 AGU Study of Earth's Deep Interior Section Award for Graduate Research at AGU's annual meeting.

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Tracking anthropogenic signatures along streams: using downstream trends in solute geochemistry to assess watershed degradation, conservation, and restoration

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