2010 Fall Graduate Student News

Congratulations to David Choi, 2010 recipient of the Gerard P. Kuiper Memorial Award. The Kuiper award is presented annually to students in the field of planetary sciences who have excelled in academic work and research.

David enrolled in the Department of Planetary Sciences in 2004 after earning a degree in

LPL/Planetary Science graduate students continue the tradition of winning NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowships (NESSFs).

Catherine Elder won a NESSF for her work on The Coupled Orbital and Thermal Evolution of Io, a project supervised by Adam Showman.

Five others had their NESSFs renewed. They are:

Eve Berger (working

Four PTYS/LPL students were awarded Galileo Circle Scholarships by the University of Arizona's College of Science:

Fan Guo (acceleration of charged particles by shocks in space, Giacalone)

Nikole Lewis (3D numerical simulations of the atmospheric dynamics on hot Jupiters, Lauretta)

Lissa Ong (impact cratering, Melosh)

Tom Schad (sunspot physical parameters