2016 Spring Faculty News

The following faculty have been notified by the University of Arizona Provost of promotions effective August 2016:

   

Dr. Travis Barman, from Associate Professor to Associate Professor with tenure

 

Dr. Ilaria Pascucci, from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor with tenure

 

 

Dr. Tom Zega, from

Professor Renu Malhotra has garnered two high honors this spring. In January, she received a Louise Foucar Marshall Science Research Professorship at the University of Arizona. This award, from the Tucson-based Marshall Foundation, is in recognition of her outstanding work in orbital dynamics. 

In April, Professor

Professor Emerita Elizabeth (Pat) Roemer, passed away on April 8, 2016. Pat joined LPL in 1966, and retired in 1997. In 1972, Dr. Roemer chaired the committee tasked with organizing a department of planetary sciences for the University of Arizona. She specialized in comets and asteroids, starting at a time long