2016 Fall Graduate Student News

Léa Bonnefoy is the recipient of the 2016 Carson Fellowship Award, which provides one academic year of support, including salary, tuition and a supply stipend. Léa is beginning her first year of graduate studies at LPL. 

Léa is French, but moved every four years during her childhood for her father’s job

Kudos to these LPL graduate students with new or continuing NESSF (NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship) Awards!

Recent PTYS graduate Michelle Thompson received the Stephen E. Dwornik Planetary Geoscience Student Paper Award at the 47th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (March 2016). Michelle was recognized for Best Graduate Oral presentation for talk titled, "Simulation of micrometeorite impacts through in situ dynamic heating of lunar soil.”

The Dwornik

Fourth-year graduate student Sarah Peacock was awarded a Lloyd V. Berkner Space Policy Internship with the National Academies Space Studies Board. The internship will afford her the opportunity to spend 10 weeks in Washington, D.C., during the Fall 2016 semester. In addition to the Berkner internship, Sarah is the recipient of

Ethan Schaefer, sixth-year PTYS graduate student, had the opportunity to conduct field work in Hawaii with generous funding assistance from Mr. Dan Cavanagh. The goal of this research was to answer the question, “If all we can see in coarse, remotely-sensed data is the outline of a lava

Margaret Landis and Sarah Sutton were recipients of the 2016 Curson travel award.

Chet Maleszewski is the recipient of the PTYS Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for Spring 2016. Chet worked with Dr. Vishnu Reddy in the PTYS/ASTR 170B2 General Education course (Natural Sciences Tier I). This was Dr. Reddy's first large-classroom teaching experience and first general education class; Chet's previous experience as a