Graduate Field Affiliation Geological Sciences In the News Holycross wins NSF CAREER award to research Earth’s crust ↗ Megan Holycross, assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Cornell Engineering, has received an NSF CAREER award to research the origins of the Earth’s continental crust. Study presents new clues about the rise of Earth’s continents ↗ New research from Cornell and the Smithsonian Institution deepens the geological understanding of Earth’s continents by testing and ultimately eliminating a popular hypothesis about why continental and oceanic crusts have contrasting compositions. Using microbes, scientists aim to extract rare-earth elements ↗ Collaborators from across Cornell University, including Esteban Gazel and Megan Holycross, were awarded $1M to mine rare-earth minerals used in consumer electronics and advanced renewable energy using programmed microbes.
