The Shirley D. Curson Education Plus Fund in Planetary Sciences and LPL (formerly the Shandel Education Plus Fund) was established by Shirley Curson, a generous donor and friend of LPL, for the purpose of supporting travel expenses outside the state of Arizona during summer break. The award is open to students in the Department of Planetary Sciences and Lunar and Planetary Laboratory who propose to fund study, museum visits, special exhibits, seminars, instruction, competitions, research and other endeavors that are beyond those provided by the normal campus environment and are not part of the student’s regular curriculum during the recipient’s school year.
| Year | Student | Project/TRAVEL |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Nguyen, Fuda | Travel to the Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshop, Caltech |
| 2022 | Walters, Jada | Travel to work with mentors at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. |
| 2022 | Smith, Lucas | Travel to Washington University to train on NanoSIM and Nanoprobe instruments. |
| 2022 | Shoemaker, Emileigh | Travel to the 19th International Conference on Ground-Penetrating Radar. |
| 2022 | Chen, Xiaohang | Travel to Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory to present research at the Parker Two 2022 Conference. |
| 2021 | Ganesh, Indujaa | Support for two weeks of field work in western Nevada to study the Nine Hill Tuff pyroclastic density current deposit. |
| 2020 | No award (COVID) | |
| 2019 | Fernandes, Rachel | 3rd Advanced School on Exoplanetary Science (ASES3), Vietri sul Mare (Salerno), Italy |
| 2018 | Cambioni, Saverio | Two months at Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur |
| 2018 | Ganesh, Indujaa | Workshop in Geology and Geophysics of the Solar System, Petnica, Serbia |
| 2018 | Mitchell, Adriana | Six weeks at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) |
| 2017 | Stadermann, Amanda | International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI) General Assembly, Portland, Oregon |
| 2016 | Sutton, Sarah | 2016 Terrestrial Analogs for Planetary Surfaces field campaign, Iceland |
| 2016 | Landis, Margaret | 6th International Conference on Mars Polar Science and Exploration, held in Reykjavik, Iceland |
| 2015 | Bramson, Ali | 2015 Terrestrial Analogs for Planetary Surfaces field campaign, Iceland |
| 2015 | Miller, Kelly | Gordon Research Conference on Origins of Solar Systems, South Hadley, Mass. |
| 2014 | Thompson, Michelle | Microscopy & Microanalysis Conference, Hartford, Conn. |
| 2013 | Elder, Catherine | Two weeks at ETH Zurich to study with Professor Paul Tackley (Io mantle convection code) |
| 2012 | Daubar, Ingrid | 7th European strategic Meteor Workshop, Moscow |
| 2012 | Leung, Cecilia | Summer at Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colo. |
| 2012 | Lora, Juan | Summer School on Atmospheric Modeling hosted by the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton |
| 2011 | Sun, Peng | 32nd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Beijing |