2025

  • EarthEd Institute inspires science teachers across WNY
    8/28/26
    UB's EarthEd Institute brought 15 local 6-12 science teachers to campus to learn from the experts.
  • Hunting for evidence of magma
    8/28/26
    UB earth sciences students develop valuable fieldwork skills during a trip to New Hampshire to study igneous rocks and volcanic landscapes.
  • Internationally acclaimed climate change scholar joins UB
    8/28/26
    10/2/2020: Sophie Nowicki, an internationally recognized expert on global climate change, ice sheet modeling and sea level rise, has joined the UB faculty. Nowicki is Empire Innovation Professor in the Department of Geology, College of Arts and Sciences, and in the RENEW Institute, an interdisciplinary institute dedicated to research and education on globally pressing problems in energy, environment and water.
  • GLY is evolving to ERT
    8/28/26
    With the exciting news of the Department of Geology evolving to the Department of Earth Sciences, there will also be a change in course prefixes. Starting in spring 2025, courses previously identified with the GLY prefix will now use the ERT prefix.
  • Nowicki recognized with Richardson Medal
    8/28/26
    Sophie Nowicki and the ISMIP6 team she leads were recognized with the Richardson Medal by the International Glaciological Union for their academic and leadership activities in the design and production of future sea-level projections.
  • UB student makes rare fossil discovery
    8/28/26
    UB Geology student James Hanna discovered a rare fossil while digging at Penn Dixie Fossil Park and Nature Reserve in Hamburg, where he is a staff educator. Another Penn Dixie staffer and UB Geology student, Jonathan Hoag, found a similar fossil a few days later.