News: Department of Geoscience

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Designed to encourage faculty collaboration and acquisition of external grant funding, the President’s Research Award has also sparked intriguing research projects on subjects ranging from nanotechnology to volcanoes.

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The relationship between research and graduate education is considered of tremendous value to both faculty and students. Why are the two so mutually beneficial?

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Why one professor hiked to a remote Russian volcano to figure out how to tap deep into the scalding water below Nevada for renewable power.