Student Award

JJ Dong

JJ Dong receives multiple 2023 AGU awards

September 15, 2023

Recent graduate Junjie Dong won multiple 2023 AGU awards, including the Mineral and Rock Physics Graduate Research Award and the Study of Earth's Deep Interior Graduate Research Award. The Mineral and Rock Physics Graduate Research Award recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of mineral and rock physics achieved during the honoree's Ph.D. research. The Study of Earth's Deep Interior Graduate Research Award is p...

Read more about JJ Dong receives multiple 2023 AGU awards
headshot_-_lucas_vargas_zeppetello.jpg

Lucas Vargas Zeppetello receives 2023 AGU James R. Holton Award

September 14, 2023

Lucas Vargas Zeppetello was recently awarded the James R. Holton Award by the American Geophysical Union (AGU).  The James R. Holton Award is presented annually and recognizes outstanding scientific research and accomplishments from honorees within three years of receiving their Ph.D. This award serves to acknowledge exceptional contributions at an early stage of the awardee’s career. AGU, the world's largest Earth and space science association,...

Read more about Lucas Vargas Zeppetello receives 2023 AGU James R. Holton Award
Thomas Lee

Thomas Lee receives 2023 AGU Scholarship

June 2, 2023

Thomas Lee recently won the 2023 Jermone M. Paros Scholarship in Geophysical Instrumentation. These scholarships were established through the generosity of Jerome M. Paros to support graduate students with a demonstrated interest in geophysical instrumentation and precise field measurements in seismology, atmospheric sciences, or ocean sciences. Three students are selected each year to help build a solid pool of talent working on and interested in...

Read more about Thomas Lee receives 2023 AGU Scholarship

EPS Teaching Awards

December 7, 2020
As is our tradition in EPS, the winners of the 2019-20 EPS Teaching Award were announced at the EPS Holiday Party (remote by zoom this year). They are Sophie Coulson who won the award for her TF and Head TF positions in EPS 10, A Brief History of the Earth in the Spring 2020 term, Camille Hankel who won the award for her TF position in AM 120, Applied Linear Algebra and Big Data in the Spring 2020 term, and Hannah Nesser who won the award for her TF position in EPS 133, Atmospheric Chemistry ... Read more about EPS Teaching Awards

Certificate of Distinction in Teaching Awards

April 24, 2020

Please join us in congratulating several of our TFs and TAs from the Fall 2019 semester who were announced as recipients of the Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching from the Bok Center! This certificate is awarded to teaching fellows, teaching assistants, and course assistants who earn an overall score of 4.5 out of 5.0 or higher (with a minimum of five evaluations) on the Q evaluations completed by students in their courses.

 

Fall 2019 Certificate of Distinction in Teaching Awardees:

Felix Elling – GENED 1018

...

Read more about Certificate of Distinction in Teaching Awards

Thomas Lee Awarded Bowdoin Prize

April 23, 2019

Please join us in congratulating EPS concentrator Thomas Lee for being awarded one of this year's undergraduate Bowdoin prizes for his essay “Silent Intrusion: New Insights into Volcano Dynamics.”.  Quoting from the prize office website, "The Bowdoin Prizes, some of Harvard’s oldest and most prestigious student awards, are designed to recognize essays of originality and high literary merit, written in a way that engages both specialists and non-specialists....

Read more about Thomas Lee Awarded Bowdoin Prize

NSF Fellowship Winners in EPS!

April 16, 2019

Congratulations to EPS graduate students Matt Brennan, Zeyuan Hu, and Natasha Toghramadjian who have been awarded the 2019 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. This fellowship provides three years of stipend and partial tuition support. Great work Matt, Zeyuan, and Natasha!

EPS Teaching Awards

December 10, 2018
For those who missed the holiday party, we announced the winners of the 2017-18 EPS Teaching Award. They are Xiaoting Yang who was a TF for AM 120 Applied Linear Algebra and Big Data in Spring 2018 and Josh Benmergui who won the award for both EPS 236 Environmental Modeling and EPS 130 Biogeochemistry of Carbon Monoxide and Methane in Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 respectively. 

The EPS Teaching Award is given annually to teaching fellows who exhibit excellence in teaching. Each recipient of this award...

Read more about EPS Teaching Awards

Distinction in Teaching recipients for EPS-taught classes

September 21, 2018

Please join us in congratulating several of our TFs, TAs, and CAs from the Spring 2018 semester who were recently announced as recipients of the Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching from the Bok Center! This certificate is awarded to teaching fellows, teaching assistants, and course assistants who earn an overall score of 4.5 out of 5.0 or higher (with a minimum of five evaluations) on the Q evaluations completed by students in their courses. Recipients will be honored by the Bok Center at two receptions in October. Thank you to all of...

Read more about Distinction in Teaching recipients for EPS-taught classes