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Allen Hatheway (Ph.D., 1971) was the fortunate Kuiper/Strom candidate (1967-1969) selected to work out the terrestrial analogs for the lunar collapse depressions of the mare. His dissertation (Lava Tubes & Collapse Depressions, 335p., University Microfilms no. 71-26,297) was the result (along with two papers in LPL Communications).

Allen then went into regular geotechnical engineering consulting firms (California and Massachusetts) and was an adjunct instructor at USC and Boston University before joining the University of Missouri as a tenured full professor of Geological Engineering (1981-2000). His second "tome" (2012) is Remediation of Former Manufactured Gas Plants & Other Coal-Tar Sites (1400p). He lives in Rolla, Missouri, and remains forever thankful for his LPL association, with the best of good science.

Mark Sykes, CEO and Director of the Planetary Science Institute, has announced the establishment of the Pierazzo International Student Travel Award, which will be supported by Betty Pierazzo Memorial Fund.

Mark forwards the following information about the travel award: "This award is established by the Planetary Science Institute in memory of Senior Scientist Betty Pierazzo to support and encourage graduate students to build international collaborations and relationships in planetary science. Two awards will be made each year, contingent upon there being meritorious applications. One will be awarded to a graduate student working on his or her Ph.D. at an institution within the U.S. This is to support travel to a planetary science related meeting (conferences and workshops) outside of the U.S. The second award will be to a graduate student working on his or her Ph.D. at an institution outside of the U.S. This is to support travel to a planetary science related meeting within the U.S. These include general meetings that have planetary-focused sessions such as the AGU, GSA, EGU and IAG. Additional information about this award is available at https://www.psi.edu/pista. "

Catherine Elder has been announced as the recipient of the 2013 Shandel Travel Scholarship. Catherine plans to use the funds for summer travel to Zurich, Switzerland. While there, she will collaborate with Professor Paul Tackley (ETH Zurich) on studies of Io.

Tune in to the LPL Fall Newsletter for a report on Catherine's summer travel and research accomplishments!

Congratulations to Fan Guo and Kathryn Volk, each named as a recipient of the 2013 Gerard P. Kuiper Award.

Fan Guo defended his dissertation titled "Effects of Turbulent Magnetic Fields on the Transport and Acceleration of Energetic Charged Particles: Numerical Simulations with Applications to Heliospheric Physics” on August 22, 2012.Professor Joe Giacalone was Fan's dissertation advisor. Fan currently holds a postdoctoral position with the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Kathryn Volk defended her dissertation titled "Dynamical Studies of the Kuiper Belt and the Centaurs" on April 1, 2013. Professor Renu Malhotra was Kat's dissertation advisor. Kat will begin her position as a CITA (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics) postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia Vancouver in the summer of 2013.

Fan and Kat are both excellent representatives of the outstanding research that is recognized by the Kuiper prize. The Kuiper award is presented to students of the planetary sciences who best exemplify, through the high quality of their researches and the excellence of their scholastic achievements, the goals and standards established by Gerard P. Kuiper, founder of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and the Department of Planetary Sciences. The Kuiper award has been presented annually since 1985.

Congratulations to LPL's 2013 Galileo Circle Scholarship recipients: Corwin Atwood-Stone, Sky Beard, Davin Flateau, Sarah Morrison, Tom Schad, Peng Sun, and Michelle Thompson. Galileo Circle Scholarships are awarded to the University of Arizona's finest science students and represent the tremendous breadth of research interests in the College of Science. 

Galileo Circle Scholars receive $1,000 each; these awards are supported through the generous donations of Galileo Circle members. The Galileo Scholars were honored at an early evening reception held on April 18, 2013.

Congratulations to all our 2013 Galileo Scholars!

Congratulations to PTYS graduate student Catherine Elder who was awarded a 2013 Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) Career Development Award in February.

The award is given to graduate students who submitted a first-author abstract to the 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC). The awards are based on a review of the application materials by a panel of planetary scientists, and recipients received a $1000.00 travel stipend to help cover LPSC conference expenses.