Congratulations to LPL alumnus Fred Ciesla (2003), who was recently promoted from Associate Professor to Professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago.
LPL congratulates recent PTYS graduate Michelle Thompson, who advanced to a pool of 32 candidates in the running to be one of two new astronauts with the Canadian Space Agency.
Also, images from a paper on which Michelle was the senior author appeared on the cover of the
Tobias ("Toby") Owen passed away on March 4. Toby was one of the very early graduate students in LPL; he received his Ph.D. in Astronomy in 1965, with Gerard Kuiper as his thesis advisor. He spent his career at IIT Research Institute, SUNY-Stony Brook, and the University of Hawai'i. In
