Jul 18, 2026
Tenure Track Position
The Department of Geology & Environmental Geosciences at Lafayette College invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position beginning…
Tenure Track Position
May 18, 2026
Geology Student Awards
The All College Honors Convocation celebrating student academic and community achievement honored 6 students this year. You can watch the ceremony here…
Apr 5, 2024
Earthquake Felt on Campus
On April 5, 2024 at approximately 14:23:23 UTC (10:23am EST), we felt a small earthquake on campus. the event was recorded with our Raspberry Shake Seismograph…
Feb 17, 2023
The Lafayette article on Geology Museum
The Lafayette published a great article about our great building and the many geologic specimens that we have. Take a look at the article here.
Nov 30, 2022
Geology and Art, Art and Geology
Geology and Art, Art and Geology. Go check out the new art Gallery exhibition: Minerals to Pigments to Painting. https://galleries.lafayette.edu/…/minerals-to-pigment…
Sep 5, 2022
Olivia Najjar ’23 studies the Pacific Ocean
The Lafayette, the colleges student newspaper, published this great article about Olivia Najjar ’23. Olivia has been doing research with Professor Sunderlin…
Sep 2, 2022
Blakey Paleogeographic Maps
New Digital Collection of Paleogeographic Maps Offers Glimpses into Deep Time The nearly 900 maps, spanning hundreds of millions of years, show the shifting…
May 12, 2022
Geology Students in All-College Honors Convocation
The Department of Geology is proud to award the following honors to our students. arthur montgomery geology award Awarded annually to a student of high…
Dec 18, 2021
Senior Thesis Student Caitlyn Dempsey
Caitlyn Dempsey ’22 has been investigating stromatolite colonies in the Allentown Formation of Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey. Her research…
Nov 14, 2021
Alumni Panel highlights Career Paths
On Friday November 12, four graduates of the Geology program at Lafayette College joined our students via Zoom to discuss careers, and their “life after…