2015 Fall Alumni News

PTYS alumnus Dr. Guy Consolmagno, S.J. (1978) has been appointed Director of the Vatican Observatory by Pope Francis. Brother Guy had previously been serving as Curator of the Vatican Meteorite Collection. Last year, he received the 2014 Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Public Communication in Planetary Science from the

The IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature has approved the name Pierazzo for a crater on the Moon. Dr. Elisabetta Pierazzo (1963-2011) was an expert on impact modeling. She was an alumna of LPL (1997) and long-time adjunct instructor for the department. Betty worked also as a Senior Scientist at the