Department of Geosciences

News & Events

Spring 2008

 

Personnel Changes

MAY- Effective 1 JULY, Mike Camille will become the new Associate Dean for the College of Arts and Sciences. Gary Stringer will become the new permanent Department Head for Geosciences.  Congratulations to them both!

 

Farewell to Dr. Feig

MAY- Dr. Anthony Feig will leave ULM next month to become a Professor of Geology and Science Education at Central Michigan University.

 

ATMS Student Wins Forecasting Award

APRIL- Freshman Matt Clay took the top award at the recent Memphis forecasting contest.

 

ATMS in the News Star

JANUARY- The Monroe News-Star profiles Boniface Mills and Sean Chenoweth, and the department’s new state-of-the-art workstation! Read the article here.

 

Fall 2007

 

Grants Funded

DECEMBER- Anthony Feig, Boniface Mills and Sean Chenoweth were awarded a $29K Service-Learning grant to study the lower atmosphere using model rockets. Read more about it here.

 

DECEMBER-Boniface Mills and Sean Chenoweth were awarded a $5K grant from the ULM S.T.A.P. program to purchase a workstation for use with WES and AWIPS software!

 

Mills Obtains Critical Software

DECEMBER- After eight months of negotiations, Dr. Boniface Mills has been granted the rights to obtain and use the Weather Event Software (WES), also known as AWIPS (Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System) simulator. Read more about it here.

 

Welcome back to Dr. Stringer

NOVEMBER- Dr. Gary Stringer has returned to Geosciences full time beginning in December 2007. Dr. Stringer was formerly the Department Head of Curriculum and Instruction at ULM. Welcome home Gary!

 

Grant Funded

OCTOBER- Mike Camille and Anthony Feig were awarded $24,000 from the Board of Regents’ SELECT program to create a 100% online Geography 103 course.

 

Welcome to Dr. Case Hanks

OCTOBER- The Department is pleased to welcome our new atmospheric scientist, Dr. Anne T. Case Hanks. Dr. Case Hanks comes to us from Georgia Tech and will start in January 2008.

 

Farewell to Dr. Howard

AUGUST- Dr. Rob Howard bids farewell to our Department. He will be missed.

News from 2006: Click here for the 2006 archive

 


 

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