Stanford’s Steve Graham Awarded SEPM’s Highest Honor: The 2025 Twenhofel Medal
We are thrilled to celebrate Professor Graham’s recognition as the 2025 Twenhofel Medal awardee, honoring his nearly five decades of impact in sedimentary geology, tectonics, and academic leadership. In a recent interview, he reflected on his career journey—from early inspirations in the Illinois Basin to his role as a Stanford professor—and shared insights on challenges, student mentorship, and the evolving future of geosciences.
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Sulgiye Park, PhD ’18, has been recognized for her PhD and postdoctoral work on understanding a wide array of functional materials at extreme environments.
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A sweeping analysis of marine fossils from most of the past half-billion years shows the usual rules of body size evolution change during mass extinctions and their recoveries. The discovery is an early step toward predicting how evolution will play out on the other side of the current extinction crisis.
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Hundreds of students participated in the Stanford Geological Survey, a century-long program that brought undergraduates to the field for extended periods to survey and map the geology of parts of California, Nevada, and Utah. (Source: Stanford News)
