Dec. 13, 2014: Uranbaigal Purevsuren received her PhD diploma. C. Atmaca, D. Mert, M. Ray, and Muchen Sun received their MS diplomas.

Nov. 19, 2014: Dr. Gao honored for Outstanding Teaching.

Nov. 2-12, 2014: The group hosted 4 visiting professors from Benghazi University, Libya.

Nov. 3, 2014: The geophysics group took its annual group photo.

Oct. 16, 2014: The following group members received Geology and Geophysics Program awards:
Outstanding Graduate Scholar ($500): Cory Reed. Publication awards ($500 each): Ahmed Elsheikh, Cory Reed, Bin Yang. Graduate Service Award($500): Cory Reed.

Oct. 3, 2014: A paper by PhD student Fansheng Kong et al. has been accepted by Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

July 25, 2014: A paper by Drs. Gao and Liu has been accepted by Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth.

July 21, 2014: A paper by Dr. Nasser Mohamed (visiting scholar) et al. has been accepted by GJI.

July 15, 2014: Cagatay Atmaca, a Master's student in this group, was featured in a Missouri S&T news report.

July, 2014: Drs. Gao, Liu, and Jing Wu visited Sichuan Seismological Bureau, gave 2 talks, and visited the epicentral area of the 2008 magnitude 8.0 Wenchuan Earthquake.

July, 2014: Dr. Gao visited Institute of Earthquake Science, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing and gave a talk.

July, 2014: Dr. Gao visited Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing and gave a talk.

July, 2014: Dr. Gao visited China University of Petroleum, Huadong and gave a talk.

July, 2014: Drs. Gao and Liu gave 2 talks at the International Workshop on the Frontiers of Computational Geodynamics, Beijing, China.

June, 2014: Dr. Gao visited Northeastern China Petroleum University, Daqing to conduct joint projects.

June, 2014: PhD student Bin Yang received two SEG scholarships:
1). Anadarko/SEG Scholarship, with a total amount of $10,000; 2). SEG/ExxonMobil Travel Grant Award for the annual meeting at Denver.

June, 2014: Dr. Gao gave an invited talk on earthquakes at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, as part of the Fort's community outreach program.

June 15, 2014: A paper by recent PhD recipient Dr. Ahmed Elsheikh et al. has been accepted by Journal of African Earth Sciences.

May-July, 2014: Field teams led by PhD students Cory Reed and Youqiang Yu decommissioned the 50 SAFARI broadband seismic stations that were recording in Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia since 2012.

May 17, 2014: Ahmed Elsheikh received his PhD diploma. G. Alshaia, S. Cheng, E. Elbileikia, M. Gepek, and S. Wu received their MS diploma.

May, 2014: PhD student Lin Liu received a 4-year scholarship from the China Scholarship Council.

March 26, 2014: A paper by PhD student Ahmed Elsheikh et al. has been accepted by Geophyiscal Research Letters.

March 20, 2014: A paper by Dr. Kelly Liu et al. has been accepted by Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems.

March-May, 2014: Dr. Jing Wu from Inst. of Geology and Geophysics, China Academy of Sciences, visited the group.

March, 2014: The following group members participated in the AAPG Imperial Barrel regional competition and received an honorable mention: Abdalla Abdelnabi, Pin Lin and Youqiang Yu.

Feb. 24, 2014: A paper by PhD student Cory Reed et al. has been accepted by Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth.

Feb. 19, 2014: Dr. Jianguo Song from China University of Petroleum started his one-year visit.

Feb. 3-4, 2014: PhD student Fansheng Kong attended the EarthScope Institute for Lithospheric Modeling Workshop at ASU.

Jan. 23, 2014: A paper by PhD student Bin Yang et al. has been accepted by Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth.

Jan. 1, 2014: Drs. Gao, Eckert, and Liu received a grant from the National Science Foundation to upgrade geophysical computing facilities at Missouri S&T.

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Dec. 23, 2013: The group's research on continental rifting was selected as one of the 13 important research stories at S&T.

Dec. 9-13, 2013: The following group members attended and presented at the American Geophysical Union fall meeting in San Francisco:
Ahmed Elsheikh, Steve Gao, Awad Lemnifi, Fansheng Kong, Cory Reed, Bin Yang, Youqiang Yu.

Nov. 14, 2013: Dr. Gao has been appointed to the editorial board of Acta Geologica Sinica by Geological Society of China.

Nov. 11, 2013: The geophysics group took its annual group photo.

Oct. 31, 2013: Dr. Gao honored for outstanding teaching.

August 11, 2013: A paper by Drs. Gao and Liu has been accepted by Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

July 2, 2013: PhD student Youqiang Yu received a travel grant to attend the EarthScope USArray Advanced Data Processing Short Course at Northwestern University.

June 19, 2013: Yahoo News reported the group's research on continental rifts

June 6 - December 30, 2013: Dr. Abdelnasser Mohamed from Aswan Earthquake Research Center visited the group.

June 11, 2013: An article by Gao et al. on SAFARI has been published in Eos.

May 20, 2013: PhD student Bin Yang received the SEG/Geophysical Society of Oklahoma City Scholarship with an amount of $5500.

May 7, 2013: A paper by Drs. Liu and Gao has been accepted by Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

April 17-19: Dr. Liu attended the annual meeting of the Seismological Society of Amerca at Salt Lake City, Utah, and gave an invited talk.

March, 2013: Drs. Gao and Liu visited UCLA's seismological lab and gave a talk on SAFARI (Seismic Arrays For African Rift Initiation).

Jan. 25, 2013: A paper by PhD student Hesham Refayee et al. has been accepted by Earth and Planetary Science Letters.