F&M Department of Earth & Environment

10/17/2026

Our dear Sioni needs our help!

Dear Friends and Family, My name is Sioni Mollel, and I am reach… Sioni Mollel needs your support for Help Sioni Stay Enrolled and Care for Her Kids

10/15/2026

F&M geoscience grad Sioni Mollel needs our help! Any and all support is welcome:

Dear Friends and Family, My name is Sioni Mollel, and I am reach… Sioni Mollel needs your support for Help Sioni Stay Enrolled and Care for Her Kids

10/09/2026

Hope to see some of you at True Blue Weekend in a couple of weeks! There's a research fair on Friday 23rd, and Saturday 24th we're having an alumni/student networking breakfast at 9:30 in Hackman 119, just a fun and casual get together. Let me know if you have any questions and feel free to let us know if you're coming as well, our students and faculty would love to see you!

08/27/2026

SAVE THE DATE... True Blue Weekend is October 23-24 this year. We'll be showcasing student research on Friday from 12-1pm, and then hosting a Geoscience Founders Society Board meeting on Saturday at 8:30am, followed by an alumni-student networking breakfast starting at 9:30am. Hope to see many of you there! Feel free to reach out with any questions or to let us know you're coming...

08/07/2026

The school year creepin' up on you... 👀

04/16/2026

YRBA alumni--big party this summer!
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Don’t miss out—only a few tickets left! Register here: https://givebutter.com/YBRA90th

04/10/2026

How do you prove the economic value of clean water?

Nancy Nguyen ’26 and Vu Nguyen ’26 tackled that question with a unique combination of field research and artificial intelligence. Their area of focus is the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, North America's largest estuary.

How do you prove the economic value of clean water? Under the guidance of Professor Patrick Fleming, two students leveraged a unique combination of field research and AI to gauge Chesapeake Bay Watershed quality.

02/23/2026

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New York Textile Lab is a design and consulting company. We design yarns and textiles that connect designers to fiber producers and mills to help grow an economically diverse textile supply ecosystem. New York textile Lab is currently focused on growing a Carbon Farm Network, a purchasing cooperativ...

02/19/2026

Robert A. Wiebe, who passed away on February 7, 2026, was an imaginative and dedicated scientist who shared his expertise in igneous petrology and mineralogy with so many Franklin & Marshall College students for over 40 years.

“Bob involved the best of his students deeply in his research, some themselves going on to become very successful scientists,” said F&M Provost Sunita Kramer.

In 1966, fresh from his Stanford Ph.D., Wiebe began his professional career at Franklin & Marshall College. A striking measure of his scientific accomplishments is his nearly continuous record of support for his research from the National Science Foundation. His list of publications mirrors his remarkable NSF support, including over 50 peer-reviewed papers in top journals. F&M students made important contributions to this prolific research profile.

Wiebe was also a warm and collaborative colleague in his department, and was honored by numerous professional accolades, including the 1998 Bradley R. Dewey Scholarship Award. After retiring from F&M in 2007, Bob moved to California where he maintained his research program at the University of California, Davis for more than a decade.

01/29/2026

We are hiring! The Department of Earth and Environment invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor/Instructor (depending on qualifications) to teach three sections of ENE112, Intro to Earth and Environmental Science, plus one elective, for the academic year 2026-2027. Details are found on the F&M careers page:

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