Ingrid Daubar has won the prestigious Nininger Meteorite Award for 2013, which recognizes outstanding student achievement in the "Science of Meteoritics" as embodied in an original research paper, for her paper on "The Current Martian Cratering Rate." More about Ingrid's winning research and the Nininger award itself, which is presented by the ASU Center for Meteorite Studies," is available at http://meteorites.asu.edu/nininger-2013

Past winners of the award include LPL alumnus William Hartmann (1966), current LPL faculty member Dante Lauretta, and former LPL director Laurel Wilkening. Recent LPL alumni Devin Schrader (2012) and Eve Berger (2011) have received honorable mentions.

Ingrid defended her dissertation on August 28. Her research advisor is Professor Alfred McEwen.