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EAS to EAPS!
Purdue's Board of Trustees approved renaming the Department of Earth and
Atmospheric Sciences (EAS) to Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary
Sciences (EAPS). The change is to bring more attention to the department's
planetary science program, said Timothy D. Sands, executive vice president
for academic affairs, provost and Basil S. Turner Professor of Engineering.
"The program has become internationally prominent thanks, in part, to the work of Professor Jay Melosh," Sands said. "With 12 faculty members involved in the planetary sciences, it has emerged as one of the signature areas of the department and enhances and builds on Purdue's tradition as a key component of the U.S. space program."
The official launching of EAPS will occur in Fall 2012. Keep an eye out for the new EAPS identifier and webpage.
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EAS Alum, Rick Knabb, selected to lead NOAA's National Hurricane Center
NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D., today announced Rick Knabb, Ph.D., as the next director of NOAA’s National Hurricane Center in Miami.
Knabb returns to NOAA after most recently serving as the on-air tropical weather expert for The Weather Channel in Atlanta since May 2010. Prior to that, Knabb was deputy director of NOAA’s Central Pacific Hurricane Center in Honolulu, and before that, he had a distinguished career at the National Hurricane Center in Miami as a senior hurricane specialist and the science and operations officer.
Read the full article here.