2018 Fall Department News

We gratefully acknowledge gifts to LPL from donors and corporate partners.

This fall, Dr. Kristopher Klein joined the LPL faculty as an Assistant Professor. 

Brad Smith, retired University of Arizona professor of Planetary Sciences and Astronomy, passed away on July 3, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. More information about Brad's life and career is available from http://shorelips.net/bradsmith/

For the 2018/2019 academic year, eight students were admitted for graduate studies at LPL.

Congratulations to the five students who completed their doctorates over the summer and fall 2018 semesters! 

This semester, the LPL Graduate Students, led by Christopher Hamilton and Joseph Spitale, travelled to the Petrified Forest National Park and Canyon de Chelly National Monument.

PTYS alumnus Dr. Moses Milazzo facilitated a Bystander Intervention Workshop at LPL on October 29. Among the thirty-two participants were faculty, staff, and graduate students from LPL and Steward Observatory. Dr. Milazzo created the U.S.G.S. StepUp! Employee Empowerment Strategies, based on the University of Arizona's StepUp! Bystander Intervention Program and adapted to the

This year's Summer Science Saturday public open house event featured the Parker Solar Probe (PSP). Professor Joe Giacalone, co-investigator for the Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun instrument aboard PSP, presented a lecture titled, Parker Solar Probe: A Mission to Touch the Sun. Over 300 attendees spent time learning about

LPL congratulates Susan Brew on her retirement and welcomes Michelle Coe.

HiRISE is now part of the curriculum for a high school class in Avellino, Italy.