LPI Announces Career Development Award Winners
February 22, 2012
The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) is proud to announce the winners of the fifth LPI Career Development Award. The award is given to graduate students who submitted a first-author abstract to the 43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), and recipients will receive an $1000.00 travel stipend to help cover their expenses for attending the conference.
The 43rd LPSC will be held at The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel & Convention Center in The Woodlands, Texas. More than 2000 participants from all over the world are expected to gather for the annual meeting, which has gained the reputation of being the premiere gathering place for lunar and planetary scientists. The meeting provides an invaluable opportunity for students, not only to present their own research, but also to hear and see firsthand the latest-breaking results from other researchers in their field. Opportunities are also provided for students to meet and network with an international group of distinguished researchers.
Congratulations to the 2012 recipients:
| Rebecca Bast Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany |
Stephen Seddio Washington University in St. Louis |
| Robert Beauford University of Arkansas |
Bhairavi Shankar University of Western Ontario, Canada |
| Elmar Buhl Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany |
Priyanka Sharma University of Arizona |
| Michael Chaffin University of Colorado at Boulder |
Matthew R. Smith University of Washington |
| Carolyn Crow University of California Los Angeles |
Veerle Jasmin Sterken MPIK-Staubgruppe, Germany |
| Dirk Elbeshausen Forshung Museum für Naturkunde, Germany |
Kun Wang Washington University in St. Louis |
| Amy L. Fagan University of Notre Dame |
Nathan Robert Williams Arizona State University |
| Roger R. Fu Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Kelsey Young Arizona State University |
| Emmanuel Jacquet Laboratoire de Minéralogie et Cosmochimiedu Muséum, France |
Gang Yu Harvard University |
| Matthew E. Sanborn Arizona State University |
Michael R. Zanetti Washington University in St. Louis |
The LPI maintains a highly focused education effort chartered to engage, excite, and educate the public about lunar and planetary science and invests in the development of future generations of scientists. The LPI Career Development Award has been provided from the generous endowments that the LPI has received over the past year from those in the community who are equally committed to the education of students in lunar and planetary science.
The LPI is managed by the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), which operates programs and institutes focused on research and education in space-related science and engineering disciplines. Institutional membership in USRA now stands at 105 leading research universities. All of USRA’s member institutions have graduate programs in space sciences or engineering. Besides the 95 member institutions in the United States, there are two in Canada, two in England, two in Germany, two in Israel,one in Australia, and one in China.
The LPI is excited about the opportunities that these endowments will afford to students in the community. All contributions to the endowment fund are tax-deductible. Anyone interested in contributing to this effort should contact Dr. Stephen Mackwell, LPI Director, at [email protected].
Last updated February 22, 2012
