February 01, 2018
Associate Professor Philipp Heck and Graduate Student Jennika Greer were featured in the Chicago Tribune for their work hunting down fragments of a January 16th meteor and analyzing the specimens they discovered.
January 31, 2018
Tad Komacek has accepted a prestigious 51 Pegasi b Fellowship to join our department starting next summer. 51 Pegasi b Fellowships provide exceptional postdoctoral scientists with the three years of funding to conduct theoretical, observational, and experimental research in planetary astronomy. They are sponsored by the Hseing-Simons Foundation.
January 29, 2018
Claire Zurkowski, a second-year graduate student in Geophysical Sciences, has won an Outstanding Student Paper Award for the talk she presented at the December meeting of the American Geophysical Union, titled "Stability of the high pressure phase Fe3S2 up to Earth's core pressures in the Fe–S–O and the Fe–S–Si systems." The OSPA Award is granted only to the top 3-5% of student participants.