Environmental Sciences
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Department News UT Arlington Today - Ph.D. Student Receives AGI Scholarship
MS Student to Present Research at National GSA Meeting
BS in Environmental Science Approved by the Texas of Higher Education The new BS in Environmental and Earth Science is designed to prepare students for present and future environmental challenges. Coursework is split evenly between biology and geology, with a significant component of math and chemistry. Jobs in this growing field occur in local, state and federal government agencies as well as the private sector. Students will be able to become majors starting in October, when the degree plan will be posted and included in MyMav. |
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Ron Tingook, Geology Ph.D. student in the Department of Earth and Environmental
Science, has been awarded the American Geological Institute's Minority Scholarship for 2009-10 school year. The AGI Minority Participation Program (MPP) committee selects outstanding candidates each year and awards a dollar amount to the students in the fall. For more information regarding this scholarship, please see 
Jesse Cope, Geology MS student in the Department of Earth and Environmental
Science, has been awarded for his poster on the sensitivity of Eocene ocean
circulation to Arctic freshwater pulses at a Geological Society of America section meeting in Dallas in Spring 2008. He has been invited to present his
research at the national GSA meeting in Portland. The research supervised by
Assistant Professor Winguth involves climate simulations performed at the
National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO, and is supported by the National Science Foundation.