2024 Spring Graduate Student News

Zarah Brown is the 2024 recipient of the Gerard P. Kuiper Memorial Award, which recognizes excellence in academics and research.

Attention to broader impacts and involvement in activities that benefit the department, university and the larger community.

Nicole Kerrison won this year’s Graduate Teaching Assistant Excellence Award for her support of PTYS/ASTR 170A1 Alien Earths, with instructor Dr. Steve Kortenkamp, during the Fall 2023 semester.

The Curson Travel Award will support three PTYS Graduate Students for summer research travel.

Eight PTYS graduate students were awarded Galileo Circle Scholarships for 2024.

Maizey Benner and Lucas Smith were selected for the Hitachi Scholarship in Electron Microscopy for generating cutting-edge research and publications in electron microscopy.

LPL graduate student Nathalia Vega won 3rd place in this year's UArizona Grad Slam Competition.

Grad Slam is a campus-wide competition for the best three-minute graduate student presentation of a research or creative project; it is sponsored by the UArizona Graduate Center. Nathalia's presentation was titled Unlocking Extremoverse

PTYS graduate student Jada Walters was selected for the Department of Energy’s SCGSR Program.

First-year PTYS student Ruby Fulford will spend the summer at the National Air and Space Museum.