2018 Spring Faculty News

The board game, Constellations: The Game of Stargazing and the Night Sky, produced by Xtronaut Enterprises, was awarded a 2018 Mensa Select seal from American Mensa. LPL Professor Dante Lauretta, chief science advisor for Xtronaut, co-created the game. The Mensa seal, awarded to only five games in 2018

Dr. Jack Holt joined the LPL faculty as Professor in April as part of the Earth Dynamics Observatory cluster hire, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Geosciences. He received his Ph.D. from Caltech in 1997, was a postdoctoral scholar at JPL, and then spent nearly 20 years at

Kudos to Assistant Professor Christopher Hamilton, who received the Geological Society of America (GSA) Early Career Award in the Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, & Volcanology Division. Professor Hamilton was previously awarded a NASA Early Career Fellowship.

In addition the GSA Early Career Award, Professor Hamilton won a faculty fellowship from NASA

Shane Byrne has been promoted from Associate Professor to Professor and Vishnu Reddy has been promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor with tenure.