2012 Fall Alumni News

Visiting student/researcher Beary Xiao recently returned to his home in China after spending two years at LPL. Beary is back in Wuhan, writing: "It is a great pleasure to come back and see the old friends here, but I also miss you guys and the blue and clean sky in

Anna H. Spitz earned her Ph.D. from Geosciences/LPL in 1991, working with Bill Boynton. The title of her dissertation is “Trace element analysis of ureilite meteorites and implications for their petrogenesis.”

Since completing her Ph.D. in 1991, Anna Spitz has not analyzed one ureilite. Although she never really left planetary

Recent PTYS/LPL graduate Kathryn Gardner-Vandy and husband Justin Vandy welcomed the arrival of beautiful baby Cora Susanne Vandy on May 26, 2012. Cora weighed in at 7 lb. 8 oz. and measured 19.5". She just celebrated her 5-month birthday! Kathryn will soon be starting a postdoctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian

Terry Hurford (LPL Class of 1998) and his wife recently gave birth to their second child, Terry A. Hurford III. They are currently living in the Baltimore/DC area, having moved there after grad school to work at Goddard Space Flight Center. Terry has continued his work dealing with tidal stress