Robby Goldman, PhD Candidate in the Department of Geology, recently received special recognition from the Graduate College for his outstanding leadership service during his time as a PhD student. “I am truly humbled to have received this recognition,” says Robby, “especially since community outreach and service have been an...
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What causes the 78% recurrence rate in patients treated with shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) for calcium oxalate (CaOx) kidney stones? Shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) is the most commonly applied treatment for human kidney stones globally, yet 78% of patients experience a recurrence in painful stone growth. In order to find out why, Lauren Todorov’s 2022 M.Sc. thesis research applied...
By Amber Rose, Grainger College of Engineering University of Illinois researchers Leonardo Chamorro and Jim Best used clear mud in order to study the structure of turbulence in water flows. You might be thinking, "mud isn’t clear!" If so, you would be wrong. Most work done by researchers in the Earth surface community has looked at the dynamics of water flows in the absence of...
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- New Zealand’s Akaroa Volcano has been the focus of decades of research by geologists seeking to understand its eruptive history, which lasted 9-8 Ma. Some of Akaroa’s most intriguing features include a radial dike swarm and several lava domes exposed along the high-topography “crater rim” of the...
- In a new paper published in Nature Communications, Gary Parker, Jim Best and Julia Cisneros (former PhD student) are part of a team that reports on how damming on the Huang He (Yellow) River, China, may increase the risk of flooding from moderate to large floods. The study, led by Hongbo...
- Check out Geology Department Professor Alison Anders talking about her work on how critical zone soils form in glaciated landscapes! Listen to...