2024-10-14
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Prospective Graduate Student Webinar
Calling all prospective graduate students!
We will be hosting a webinar on Nov. 7 at 7 pm CT, where you can hear from current students and meet potential faculty advisors.
Sign up here to register:
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2024-09-30 - Congratulations to CliMAS professor Atul Jain for securing new NASA funding to develop the Land-Earth System Digital Twin (L-ESDT)! This innovative project bridges the gap between the virtual and physical worlds by creating a digital counterpart of real-world entities, systems, and processes. It involves developing and maintaining a highly detailed and dynamic digital replica using advanced...
2024-09-26 - Whether they’re on a boat in the middle of a lake to extract sediment cores, deploying a weather balloon in the middle of a blizzard, or sailing around the Aleutian Islands to study microbes in the deep sea, university students play a vital role in advancing science supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Collecting cores In September 2023, Ryan Thigpen, Mike McGlue...
2024-09-20 - WBEZ, Chicago's National Public Radio affiliate, created a nice story featuring the urban field work underway as part of the Department of Energy-funded CROCUS project: https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2024/09/19/chicago-scientists-turn-to-...
2024-09-04 - L. Ruby Leung Lecture: Beckman Institute
2024-09-04 - The AMS Fellows Committee elected Professor and Head Steve Nesbitt as Fellow of the American Meteorological Society. Nesbitt joins other CliMAS active faculty members Prof. Jeff Trapp and Prof. Sonia Lasher-Trapp as Fellows. The criteria for election as Fellow "shall have made outstanding contributions to the atmospheric or related oceanic or hydrologic sciences or their applications...
2024-09-03 - Meet new CliMAS faculty member: Shiv Priyam Raghuraman Professor Raghuraman comes to the University of Illinois from the University of Miami and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), where he was a postdoc researcher focusing on climate issues. His research is on radiative forcing and feedbacks and clouds. Why does he find that so appealing? “I like...
2024-08-29 - Dr. Annareli Morales was recently awarded a highly selective award by the American Meteorological Society for her distinguished research career and her efforts in promoting the Latinx community within the atmospheric sciences. Annareli grew up in Chicagoland (shoutout to Cicero) and graduated from the University of Illinois with a double major in Atmospheric Sciences and Geology in...
2024-07-08 - CliMAS professor, Atul Jain, has been selected for the Distinguished Alumni Award of IIT Delhi for 2024! The award is in recognition of his outstanding contributions and leadership which has brought recognition to the Institute. Founded in 1961, the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi is a globally-recognized university and is one of the 23 IIT campuses encompassing the...- 2024-07-08 - Students training mobility service dogs, a collaborative effort to study deadly tornadoes, and an emerging game studies program are featured in “Unique Illinois”, a new 30-minute documentary premiering July 10th at 4:30pm CT on the Big Ten Network. Each segment features stories or experiences exclusive to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Stories in the documentary include...
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2024-03-14 - Looking up and looking forward Atmospheric scientist Atul Jain is recognized for vital insights into the future of our climate Of the nearly 30 years that Atul Jain has worked as an atmospheric sciences researcher and professor at the University of Illinois, the last...
- 2024-03-01 - Learn more about the many areas of research and public engagement going on with the College of LAS and its work in Chicago: https://las.illinois.edu/news/2024-03-01/lessons-windy-city
2024-01-22 - Kelvin Droegemeier’s new book, “Demystifying the Academic Research Enterprise” from MIT Press, helps next-generation scholars at all types of institutions prepare for a successful career. Respected atmospheric scientist creates a new resource for scholars in all fields and positions. Are you wanting to up your game in academic research? Do you...
2024-01-22 - The Department of Atmospheric Sciences has a new name: The Department of Climate, Meteorology, & Atmospheric Sciences (CliMAS). The name change was approved by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees at their meeting on January 18, 2024. The name change takes place immediately. For students, this is a change in department name only, course rubrics and degree names will stay the same....