Graduate Students
Cameron de Wet wins 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award
Nov. 15, 2021—Congratulations to EES PhD Candidate Cameron de Wet for winning the 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award from the European Geosciences Union for his poster/PICO entitled: North American rainfall patterns during past warm states: A proxy network-model comparison for the Last Interglacial and the mid-Holocene (de Wet, C.; Oster, J.; Ibarra, D.;...
Vanderbilt EES Winners at 2021 GSA Conference
Oct. 25, 2021—Congratulations to EES PhD student Kat Turk and undergraduate student Andrei Olaru for winning awards at the 2021 GSA Conference in Portland, Oregon. Kat won a best oral presentation award for her project titled “”Priapulid trace fossils from the late Ediacaran of Namibia.” Andrei’s poster presentation titled “”Functional morphology of the Ediacaran organism Tribrachidiium heraldicum...
EES Ph.D. Candidate Kat Turk wins DAAD Foundation Respekt & Wertschätzung Scholarship
Aug. 27, 2021—Congratulations to EES Ph.D. Candidate Kat Turk for being awarded the “Respekt & Wertschätzung” Scholarship from the DAAD Foundation in Germany! The scholarship allows American physics students to conduct research in Germany. Kat will be working with the Division of Actuopalaeontology at Senckenberg am Meer in Wilhelmshaven from May-August 2022 to run experiments studying the...
Five receive Graduate Leadership Anchor Awards
Jun. 24, 2021—Five receive Graduate Leadership Anchor Awards Jun. 23, 2021, 11:00 AM The Vanderbilt Graduate Student Council has announced the winners of its inaugural Graduate Leadership Anchor Awards. The awards were designed by the Graduate Student Council to identify and honor the hard work and leadership of graduate students at Vanderbilt. The Graduate Leadership Anchor...
Two EES students were recognized by the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program
May. 10, 2021—Elizabeth Teeter, current PhD student, received a full fellowship, and Sarah Ward, upcoming EES graduate student, earned an honorable mention. Congratulations!
Virtual Gatherings: Grad student in Earth & Environmental Sciences keeps group hangouts on schedule
Jan. 5, 2021—Graduate students in Earth and Environmental Sciences continue their tradition of weekly hangouts through video calls Each week, graduate students in Earth & Environmental Sciences look forward to an informal get-together at KayBob’s, a local watering hole in Hillsboro Village, to talk shop and get some downtime with peers outside the classroom. When COVID-19 threw...
Prof. David Furbish and PhD student Kelsea Best follow up on Bernard K. Forscher’s 1963 essay, Chaos in the Brickyard
Jan. 5, 2021—The authors of The Brickyard in 2020 (David Furbish, Douglas Jerolmack and Rachel Glade) offer an updated view of the state of affairs in the brickyard described in B. K. Forscher’s popular 1963 allegorical letter to Science, “Chaos in the Brickyard.” It calls for a need to realign the research endeavor, institutions and incentives with...
EES has vanquished the GRE from our graduate application process!
Jan. 5, 2021—Students will no longer be required to take the GRE exam or report scores when applying to our graduate program! #GRExit We have also reduced the university’s graduate application fee from $95 to $20. Both steps are in support of equity and inclusion in geoscience graduate education!
Ph.D. candidate Jessica Raff wins GSA’S Student Research Award
Dec. 16, 2020—Congratulations to Ph.D. student Jessica Raff! She recently won the Geological Society of America’s Research Award in Sedimentary Geology for her project “Is variability in the Asian monsoon and Himalayan erosion recorded in the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta?” Read more about the award and Jessica’s work.