May 02, 2016
Associate Professor Dorian Abbot discusses alien environments in a Science News article. Former DoGS postdoc and current assistant professor at Harvard, Robin Wordsworth, was also interviewed.
April 15, 2016
Graduate student Lily Thompson has been accepted into the East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes, sponsored jointly by the National Science Foundation and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. With this EAPSI award Lily will spend the summer with researchers at Ehime University, where she will apply ab initio calculation methods to investigate the mineralogy of hydrous phases in Earth's deep interior.
March 30, 2016
Graduate students Sarah Tulga (paleontology) and Jennika Greer (cosmochemistry), as well as current and former undergraduates Rachel Atlas (atmospheric chemistry), Alexandra Boghosian (glaciology), and Hannah Kenagy (atmospheric chemistry) have won prestigious graduate fellowships from the National Science Foundation. These fellowships provide three years of funding and have a 12% acceptance rate. Congratulations!