Lunar and Planetary Laboratory: Newsletter



Betty Pierazzo Memorial Fund The Planetary Science Institute has established the Betty Pierazzo Memorial Fund. The purpose of this fund will be to promote science in education. To contribute, please visit this website. Betty was a 1997 graduate of LPL. She was also adjunct faculty at LPL, regularly teaching PTYS 214 before her death in 2011.	LPL at the Tucson Festival of Books UA Innovation Day honors Mike Drake Recent PTYS/LPL Graduates From the Strange But True file... Selina Johnson, 1952-2011 Space Grant Student presents on Capitol Hill 2012 Outstanding Staff Awards Garden bench named to honor Tom Gehrels Beshore named OSIRIS-REx Deputy PI Spring in Death Valley: the PTYS 594A Fieldtrip Timothy D. Swindle appointed Head and Director OSIRIS-REx web site now online LPL alums ready to mine asteroids Faculty promotions New Faculty Member: Isamu Matsuyama Nikole Lewis receives Sagan Fellowship Fall 2011 GTA Excellence Award 2012 Kuiper Award to Nikole Lewis 2012 Galileo Circle Scholarships 2012 Shandel Awards Two students receive NSF GRPFs Kudos to NSERC recipients 2012 College of Science Graduate Student Awards UA Alumnus Update: James Head Dr. Barbara Cohen: a renaissance woman who contributes broadly Betty Pierazzo Memorial Fund Grinspoon named Blumberg Chair in Astrobiology Melissa Lamberton: Space Grant alumna Popular Solar System Orbits Result in "Planet Pileups" Watching Out for Asteroids Heading Our Way Keeping an Eye on the Universe Meteorite Shockwaves Trigger Dust Avalanches on Mars With "Google Earth" for Mars, Explore the Red Planet from Home Voyager Probes Detect "Invisible" Milky Way Glow UA-Led Asteroid Mission Wins State Innovation Award Mystery of Slick Martian Slopes Gets Less Slippery Meteorites: a pictorial history of our solar system Amateur Astronomers to "Target Asteroids!" UA Undergrad Taking Moon Research to Washington, D.C. For UA Astronomy Students, the Sky is Not the Limit Is it really cheaper to mine platinum from an asteroid?
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