Graduate Program Overview
The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences is part of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, although the academic life of graduate students is largely guided by the rules of The Graduate School (TGS), which is the administrative unit for most graduate programs at Northwestern. Students should become familiar with The Graduate School requirements (links below), as well as specific departmental requirements. Department specific links are accessible from the left panel of this page.
and The Graduate School's requirements from registration through graduation for both Master's and Ph.D's...- PhD Checklist
- PhD Timeline
- Satisfactory academic progress criteria
- Ph.D. Degree Policies
- Policy, Program, and Course Catalog, and the
- Northwestern University Student Handbook
Departmental advisers provide ample advice to assist students in planning their academic and research programs, but it remains the responsibility of each student to know the University and department rules and to be sure that all requirements and deadlines are met.
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Building an Astronomical Timescale of the Maastrichtian (late Cretaceous)
Photos
Graduate student Maya Gomes carries the Earth in her hands during the EPS New Year celebration.
Young Ji Joo (left) and Darcy Li (right) stand with Professor Emeritus Abraham Lerman. The three worked on several projects together involving global biogeochemistry, particularly the coupling of N and Si with C cycles.
Graduate student John Lazarz centering a sample on the X-ray diffraction system in the mineral physics laboratory.
A warehouse of SPREE seismometors
Professor McInerney's Paleobiology class at the Field Museum of Natural History
EARTH 201 students at Natural Bridge State Park in Baraboo, WI
Rosemary Bush holding the part and counterpart (and a scale) of an incredibly well-preserved frog fossil in Ethiopia.
Andrew Jacobson's metal-free clean lab
Brian Kristall chisels a banded iron formation near Marquette, MI.
Greg Lehn collects water samples from a river on the North Slope of Alaska.
