NSF awards $2.16 million for intraplate earthquake studies to Liu, Sandvol, Gomez, Cormier, and colleagues.
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Undergraduate Research Program

This Fall we began a departmental Undergraduate Research Program. The program will be funded from three Opportunities for Excellence in Geology Endowments (the John and Betty Marshall, Walter D. Keller, and Norman E. Smith funds). We plan to fund ~5 undergraduate projects per year at ~ $3,000 each that will lead to Senior Theses.

The intent of the program is to provide funds to enable undergraduates to conduct meaningful field- and laboratory-based research as part of their MU education. There are a number of benefits to such a program:

• It encourages and rewards research starting early in our students’ careers.
• It is a great recruiting tool to attract students to our program.
• Our students will be more competitive and better prepared for graduate school and the work force.
• The program increases our department’s visibility on campus and beyond.
• Integrating meaningful research into our undergraduate curriculum allows us to create a unique role relative to other state-funded universities in Missouri.

The first student to be funded through this program is Nick Barber who is studying the effects of fluorine on viscosity of silicic and dacitic magmas with Alan Whittington. We are extremely grateful to the donors to the Opportunities for Excellence in Geology Endowments who have provided research opportunities for these students.

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Past news:

Mian Liu and Shimin Wang, Geological Sciences, find motion of Earth's plates consistent for 40 million years

Michael Underwood, Geological Sciences, part of research team to drill into undersea earthquake zone

The Geology Student Scholarship Fund

Ken MacLeod: Study of ancient climate can help predict future patterns

Eric Sandvol and international team measure earth structure beneath eastern Turkey

The Williamson Family Colloquium Series
2007-08

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Last Modified: spring 2008