2018 Spring Graduate Student News

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

Ali Bramson and Margaret Landis are the 2018 recipients of the Gerard P. Kuiper Memorial Award.

Ali is a sixth-year student who will defend her dissertation in summer 2018. Her research is based on the analysis of planetary radar data and simulations of changing ice stability as orbital elements

Congratulations Thaddeus (Tad) Komacek and Margaret Landis!

Galileo Circle Scholarships are supported through the generous donations of Galileo Circle members.

The Department of Planetary Sciences/Lunar and Planetary Laboratory was pleased to honor the following students as recipients of the 2018 College of Science Graduate Student Awards. Each student received $100 and recognition at a reception held on April 19.

Saverio Cambioni is the recipient of the PTYS Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for Fall 2017. Saverio worked with Dr. Steve Kortenkamp in the PTYS/ASTR 206 General Education course (Natural Sciences Tier II). Nominations cited Saverio's responsive and thorough grading as well as an "excellent" lecture on his research and near-Earth Asteroids