News + Impact - MIT EAPS

Chalkboards, beakers, and cookies: A memory of Frank Dudas

January 25, 2023

Categories: Community

5 vertical photos show granular objects: marbles, glass beads, seaglass, rocks, and plastic beads.

Moving water and earth

January 11, 2023

Categories: Faculty, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Research, Students + Postdocs

Aviva Intveld, smiling and leaning on a railing overlooking the Charles River with the Boston skyline in the background.

Looking to the past to prepare for an uncertain future

January 11, 2023

Categories: Community, Life + Environments, Profile, Students + Postdocs

3 Questions: Tanja Bosak on being a Fundamental Science Investigator

January 3, 2023

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Life + Environments

The steps and front entrance of MIT at 77 Massachusetts Avenue is pictured. There are wreaths and string lights above each of the three doors.

MIT’s departments, labs, and centers celebrate the holidays

December 23, 2022

Categories: Community

Q&A: Zhendong Zhang, SEG Geophysics Reviewer of the Year, on getting into the peer review process

December 19, 2022

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Students + Postdocs

Nori Nakata receives 2023 IUGG Early Career Scientist Award

December 12, 2022

Categories: Awards + Promotions

Wind turbines on the top of a hill.

A healthy wind

December 2, 2022

Categories: Climate, Faculty, Health of the Planet, Research

MIT Astronomy Field Camp to start again in 2023

November 23, 2022

Categories: Community, Planets

Earth in black space, with constellations and data wave.

Earth can regulate its own temperature over millennia, new study finds

November 16, 2022

Categories: Climate, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

Skylar Larsen sits indoors, arm on railing, with windows and a wire wall in background.

Expanding horizons through astronomy and art

November 15, 2022

Categories: Planets, Profile, Students + Postdocs

What Do Earthquake Forecasting and Cancer Treatment Have in Common?

November 8, 2022

Categories: Alumni, Profile

Remote work: MIT’s next-gen planet-hunting telescope scans the night sky alone

November 8, 2022

Categories: Planets, Research

In the dark ocean, a cartoon illustration shows a green oval microbe Prochlorococcus eating a dead purple microbe that looks like a Cheeto. A few other microbes appear in background.

Ocean microbes get their diet through a surprising mix of sources, study finds

November 03, 2022

Categories: Climate, Health of the Planet, Life + Environments, Research

Three EAPS faculty members appointed to career development professorships

November 2, 2022

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty

Leigh Royden, dressed in a burgundy coat jacket, smiles while standing in an out-of-focus white hallway.

Geophysicist Leigh Royden looks at Earth from the top down

October 30, 2022

Categories: Faculty, Life + Environments, Profile

Photo of pedestrians at a tree-lined intersection, all seen through a polluted haze in Anyang City, China

Coordinating climate and air-quality policies to improve public health

October 26, 2022

Categories: Climate, Health of the Planet, Research

3-D modeled illustration depicts the DART mission, and shows a boxy spacecraft with blue jets and solar panel wings approaching a bulky meteor.

Method for decoding asteroid interiors could help aim asteroid-deflecting missions

October 19, 2022

Categories: Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs

Perron appointed to named chair; Bosak receives Fundamental Science Investigator Award

October 18, 2022

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty

Return to Mt. Washington: DEAPS 2022 in pictures

October 7, 2022

Categories: Community