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Department News Archive

Margot Gerritsen answers questions as part of Stanford's Open Office Hours on Facebook 10/13/2009

ERE PhD student Ekin Ozdogan won the Outstanding Poster Award  09/24/2009

Scientists pass solid particles through rock: Geothermal energy gets a boost from nanotech in the drive for renewable energy. 06/29/2009

Nanotracer successfully finds its way though the rock pore network 06/29/2009

Yu Lin (GES), Wendy Mao (GES): High-pressure Compound Could Be Key to Hydrogen-powered Vehicles 05/11/2009

Dean Pamela Matson elected as an Einstein Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences 04/29/2009

Sally Benson (ERE) has been selected to be the 2009 Halbouty Lecturer by the Geological Society of America 04/22/2009

Earth Sciences Faculty Comment on Petroleum Research 04/15/2009

ERE students triumph at SPE Western Regional student paper contest 04/03/2009

William R. Evitt, Professor Emeritus of Geology, Dies at 86 04/02/2009

Kevin Arrigo (EESS) and Margot Gerritsen (ERE) were named as Leopold Leadership Fellows 03/15/2009

Exxon Mobil Chief Lauds GCEP's Energy Research 02/23/2009

GCEP announces $5.6 million in research awards 02/05/2009

Stanford launches $100 million initiative to tackle energy issues 01/12/2009

Roland Horne in Washington Post: Filipinos Draw Power From Buried Heat 10/09/2008

Sebastien Matringe takes 1st Place in the SPE International Student Paper Contest 09/26/2008

Sun Microsystems Names CEES an OPENSPARC Center of Excellence 09/05/2008

George Thompson awarded Penrose Medal from GSA 05/30/2008

Stanford's first all-female PhD committee in Engineering or Earth Sciences 05/06/2008

Stanford wins at SPE Western Regional Student Paper Contest 04/07/2008

Stanford launches program to prepare diverse doctoral students for academic careers 12/04/2007

ERE students win SPE International Student Paper Contest, November 2007 11/29/2007

Video interview with Margot Gerritsen discussing her SmartEnergy Show 11/29/2007

Margot Gerritsen: With growth of blogging on campus, Stanford gets caught up in Web 2.0 11/28/2007

Community invited to memorial planned Monday for Edmund Chang, geologist 11/28/2007

Pam Matson, Anne Egger: Fund Supports Innovative Pedagogy 11/12/2007

Stanford Geothermal Workshop, January 28-30, 2008 11/09/2007

Email service on pangea is now terminated. 11/02/2007

Lou Durlofsky will be awarded the Lester C. Uren Award for distinguished achievement before age 45 at the November SPE meeting 07/13/2007

Roland Horne will be awarded Honorary SPE Membership, the highest honor SPE bestows on an individual, at the November meeting 07/13/2007

Yuanlin Jiang wins the 2007 Ramey Award 06/15/2007

Sally Benson, Tony Kovscek, Lynn Orr, and Mark Zoback among researchers examining carbon capture and storage to combat global warming 06/14/2007

José Akamine Ramírez was a recipient of the 2007 Centennial Teaching Assistant Award 06/13/2007

Three SPE presidents, three Stanford Earth Sciences PhDs 06/11/2007

Pamela Matson reflects on protecting the planet without harming its people in the May issue of Stanford Magazine 05/10/2007

Rotimi Awoleke & Bin Gong won in both categories of the SPE Western Region Student Paper Contest 05/09/2007

The Winter 2007 Miller Award was awarded to Wentao Zhou 04/20/2007

ERE students win first places in both divisions of the SPE Western Regional Paper Contest 04/16/2007

Lynn Orr: GCEP awards record $15 million for energy research at Stanford and other universities 03/28/2007

Sally Benson named executive director of GCEP 02/20/2007

Egill Juliusson received first place in the Student Paper Awards at the Geothermal Resources Council Annual Conference 02/19/2007

Khalid Aziz received the Petroleum Society of Canada's Lifetime Achievement Award. 01/04/2007

Lecture series to explore China's rapid modernization 11/17/2006

Scholars learn to communicate plainly the science of climate change 10/27/2006

Lynn Orr: GCEP announces $1.15 million in research awards 10/27/2006

GCEP: Forum examines technologies aimed at reducing greenhouse gases 10/03/2006

Department of Petroleum Engineering adopts new name, expanded mission 09/01/2006

The Department of Petroleum Engineering has changed its name to Energy Resources Engineering 07/26/2006

2006 Earth Sciences Commencement photos online 06/21/2006

Lynn Orr: GCEP announces new energy research programs totalling nearly $8 million 03/07/2006

Margot Gerritsen: Biases must be tackled to achieve gender equity in mathematics 02/24/2006