Geoblog

Congratulations to our major, Margaret Brill, on receiving the 2007 Cheryl A Koski award. The $500 prize is given to a “non traditional female student 30 years of age or older with the highest GPA among graduating seniors in the College of Letters and Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.”

The award will be given (with Cheryl Koski present) at the Languages and Literature awards event on Thursday, April 19 at the Fern Young Terrace (3:30-5).

Laura “Red” Gierach who received her acceptance notice into South Dakota’s MS program in Vertebrate Paleontology. She must love the Dakotas – the summer internship from last year (’06) doing geology and paleontology at the Pioneer Trails Regional Museum in Bowman, North Dakota was also just renewed for the upcoming summer. Her blog from last year is still archived online at:

http://blogs.uww.edu/other/ptrm

Check it out if you haven’t already – lots of nice pix and a few funny vids.

Nikki Dudei, who now has two grad school acceptances (plus TA $$$ offers) to continue her geological/paleontological studies from UW Milwaukee, and Ohio University in Athens. Ohio is flying her out to visit in early March. The department at Ohio is the leading program in the US incorporating paleontology and GIS. I’ve read the emails she’s received from them, and they are very excited to receive a person with a geology background with GIS skills.

And congratulations as well to Christopher Klug, finishing up his MS in Geology at Bowling Green. Chris was just offered a 5-year, “full-ride” in Geology/Paleontology at Texas A&M University. We couldn’t be more proud.

Both of these students continue our tradition of Geology track majors that have successfully marketed their GIS skills to get into Geology programs that otherwise would overlook them. We will never be strong in geochemistry or geophysics here, but more and more geology schools are recognizing that we “deliver the goods” as far as GIS is concerned.

November 29, 2006

Mr. Tom Jeffery is now Dr. Thomas Jeffery. He submitted the completed requirements for his PhD. and received his degree on Tuesday, November 29, 2006.

Congratulations!