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• Geoscience Undergraduate Student, Kristen Norberg, named URECA Researcher of the Month
• Professor Weisen Shen elected to the Earthscope Board of Directors
• Stony Brook University College of Arts and Sciences Difference You Make podcast features Geosciences Professor Timothy Glotch
• From Stony Brook to the South Pole: Probing the effects of global changing
• Stony Brook University College of Arts and Sciences Difference You Make podcast features Geosciences Associate Professor Greg Henkes
• Congratulations to the Class of 2025!
• Spotlight featuring  Alumni Andrea Harrington  '13 PhD, who is currently NASA's sample return curation integration lead
• Professor Timothy Glotch leads one of only two research teams granted access to rare lunar materials.
• NASA's Perseverance rover has found possible hints of ancient life on Mars.
• Professors Deanne Rogers and Timothy Glotch funded as part of Consortium for Enabling Technologies and Innovation by DOE NNSA to support the  basic science that underlies its nuclear security and nonproliferation missions.
• Professor Weisen Shen's research in the South Pole focused on the unexplored land beneath the ice sheet. 
• Congratulations to the Class of 2024!!
• URECA's annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creativity features Ten  Students Mentored by Professor Troy Rasbury
• Professor William Holt mentors one of the 2024 top 300 Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholars

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