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  • Congratulations Jennika Greer!

    September 09, 2022

    Jennika Greer successfully defended her thesis on September 2nd titled "Atom Probe Tomography of Lunar Materials". Hannah's committee was Philipp Heck (primary advisor), Nicolas Dauphas, Andy Davis, and Edwin Kite.

    What's next for Jennika? She has a postdoc at the University of Glasgow lined up.

    Did you know there is an area on Planet Mars which NASA has named Glasgow? The Mars rover Curiosity, which landed on the planet in August 2012, has drilled at the site.

    Congrats again, Jennika!

  • Congratulations Hannah Bloom!

    August 11, 2022

    Hannah Bloom successfully defended her Master's thesis on August 4th titled "s-Process Molybdenum, Ruthenium, and Barium in High-Density Presolar Graphite". Hannah's committee was Andy Davis (chair), Thomas Stephan, Philipp Heck, Fred Ciesla, and Andy Campbell.

    What's next for Hannah? This fall she will be a Guest Lecturer at Wheaton College, where she will be teaching Astronomy. In the spring she will be a Guest Faculty at Elmhurst University, where she will be teaching Environmental Science (which will involve a good amount of Earth Science). Future goals include earning a full-time position teaching at the college level.

    Congrats again, Hannah!

  • Art is all around us: Exploring creative works across the UChicago campus

    July 26, 2022

    Science and art, intertwined

    Ruth Duckworth’s “Earth, Water, Sky,” a four hundred-square-foot mural covers the four walls and ceiling of the entrance to the Henry Hinds Laboratory for Geophysical Sciences.

    The space is covered with over four hundred tiles with “fluid, biomorphic ceramic shapes.”

    A former faculty member who taught at UChicago from 1964-1973, the piece was commissioned at a particularly exciting time for the geophysical sciences, as the first satellite views of the earth were available, and earth science and atmospheric science were being joined together as one field.

    Check out more of the innovative art around campus right here.

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