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2026 EAPS Community and Student Awards

May 29, 2026

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Community

Noelle Selin named as TEPCO Professor

July 1, 2026

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

A portrait of Raymond Pierrehumbert next to an image of the atmosphere of Jupiter.

Q&A with Professor of the Practice Raymond Pierrehumbert: The geology of planetary atmospheres

June 29, 2026

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Life + Environments, Planets

Vintage-inspired collage shows Earth’s ozone layer, in yellow, hit by sun rays. Mod-style stars represent ozone and some are being destroyed by the sun rays.

Scientists find ozone depletion began decades before discovery of ozone hole

June 29, 2026

Categories: Health of the Planet, Research, Students + Postdocs

A portrait of Jess Speedie

Jess Speedie recognized by IAU with 2025 PhD Prize Honourable Mention

June 26, 2026

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Students + Postdocs

Fossil wall of various species.

What happens when environmental change outpaces life’s ability to adapt?

June 24, 2026

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet, Life + Environments, Research

Perrin Davidson stands, posing, against an indoor angled pillar.

Characterizing Earth’s damping mechanisms

June 24, 2026

Categories: Health of the Planet, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Profile, Students + Postdocs

A portrait of Susan Solomon

Susan Solomon named 2026 Tang Prize laureate

June 15, 2026

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet

As cities grow around weather stations, does the hot pavement skew our measurements of global warming?

June 10, 2026

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Side-by-side portraits of Matej Pec and Richard Teague.

Matěj Peč and Richard Teague promoted

June 9, 2026

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Angelina Serafini showing off her scientific poster, titled

Angelina Serafini receives 2026 Dwornik Award for Best Graduate Poster Presentation

June 9, 2026

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Students + Postdocs

Commencement 2026 Roundup: Degrees Earned

May 29, 2026

Categories: Community, Students + Postdocs

2026 EAPS Community and Student Awards

May 29, 2026

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Community

Meet the EAPS Majors: Class of 2026

May 29, 2026

Categories: Community, Students + Postdocs

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Liam Moser PhD ’26 one of ten MIT 2026 Fulbright awardees

May 26, 2026

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Community

Learning to teach, learning to discover

May 22, 2026

Categories: Profile, Students + Postdocs

Has Earth’s climate ever changed as fast as it has today?

May 20, 2026

Categories: Climate, Research

The Haystack 37m Telescope: A new era of astrophysical research

May 19, 2026

Categories: Planets, Research

An air pollution meter being overrun with wildfire smoke.

3 Questions: Evaluating hourly air pollution forecasts in a time of more frequent wildfires

May 12, 2026

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet, Natural Hazards, Research

Kristin Bergmann receives Earll M. Murman Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising

May 6, 2026

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

A rendering of a planetary atmosphere, showing a jet stream in shades of maroon.

New algorithm helps redefine our understanding of jet streams

May 4, 2026

Categories: Life + Environments, Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs