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Hoopes Prize Recipients

May 9, 2018

Please join us in congratulating the following EPS concentrators for being awarded Hoopes Prizes to recognize their theses.

Quoting from the Hoopes Prize web site "the fund provides undergraduate prizes to be given for the purpose of "promoting, improving, and enhancing the quality of education . . . in literary, artistic, musical, scientific, historical, or other academic subjects made part of the College curriculum under Faculty supervision and instruction, particularly by recognizing, promoting, honoring, and rewarding excellence in the work of undergraduates and their...

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EPS Shaler Teaching Award Winners!

December 12, 2017
The winners of the 2016-17 Shaler Teaching Award are Lauren Kuntz who was a TF for SPU 29 The Climate-Energy Challenge in Fall 2016 and EPS 231 Climate Dynamics in Spring 2017; and Kimee Moore who was a TF for EPS 52 Global Geophysics: A Primer in Spring 2017.  The Shaler Teaching Award is given annually to teaching fellows who exhibit excellence in teaching. Each recipient of this award receives an "Outstanding EPS Teaching Fellow" certificate, an engraved Estwing rock hammer, and $500. Great work Lauren and... Read more about EPS Shaler Teaching Award Winners!
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Congratulations to Sunyoung Park

September 13, 2017
Please join us in congratulating EPS graduate student Sunyoung Park for being awarded a 2017 Student Presentation Award at the Annual Meeting of the Seismological Society of America.  The award is to recognize excellence in student poster and oral presentations Sunyoung's presentation was titled "A New Approach to Constrain Near-Surface Seismic Structure Based Upon Body-Wave Polarization".   More information can be found by following this link.... Read more about Congratulations to Sunyoung Park

Congratulations to student fellowship winners

June 12, 2017

We are delighted to share the news that graduate students Tia Scarpelli and Jonathan Moch have been awarded fellowships starting next academic year. Tia was awarded the four-year NDSEG (National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate) Fellowship and Jonathan was awarded the one-year Switzer Environmental Fellowship. These are great accomplishments. Congratulations Tia and Jonathan!

GSAS Merit Fellowship awarded to Sunny Park

April 27, 2017

 

EPS graduate student Sunny Park has been awarded the Graduate School’s Merit Fellowship for 2017-18 for her research proposal titled “The Earth Revealed by New Seismological Approaches - Insights into the Deep Processes from Top to Bottom”. Well done Sunny!

 

NSF Fellowship winners in EPS!

March 29, 2017

 

Congratulations to current EPS graduate student Judy Pu and incoming G1 Tina Liu who were both awarded 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships!

 

Bok Center's Distinction in Teaching awards announced!

March 9, 2017

 

Please join us in congratulating several of our TFs and a TA from the Fall 2016 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 and teaching 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 a reception in April. Thank you to all of our TFs and TAs who work hard to promote learning...

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EPS Shaler Teaching Award Winners!

December 9, 2016

 

We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2015-16 Shaler Teaching Award: Yanpeng Sun who was a TF for EPS 171 Structural Geology & Tectonics in Fall 2015 and Will Steinhardt who was a TF for ES 123 Intro to Fluid Mechanics Spring 2016.  The Shaler Teaching Award is given annually to teaching fellows who exhibit excellence in teaching. Each recipient of this award receives an "Outstanding EPS Teaching Fellow" certificate, an engraved Estwing rock hammer, and...

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Bok Center's Distinction in Teaching awards announced

September 21, 2016

We are pleased to share the winners of the Spring 2016 Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching! The Bok Center for Teaching and Learning reserves this award for outstanding teaching fellows and assistants (complete list here). All scored 4.5 or higher (out of a total of 5) on their teaching evaluations. The recipients will be invited to a reception on October 19 to receive their certificates.

  • EPS 261 Sea Level Change - Jacky Austermann
  • EPS/OEB 56 Geobiology...
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