2019 Spring Graduate Student News

Hamish Hay is the 2019 recipient of the Gerard P. Kuiper Memorial Award, the department's highest award for graduate student scholarship.

Alessondra Springmann is the 2019 recipient of the Leif Andersson Award for Service and Outreach.

Congratulations to LPL's 2019 Galileo Circle Scholarship recipients: Rachel Fernandes, Hamish Hay, Daniel Lo, Joshua Lothringer, Kyle Pearson, and Shane Stone.

Joshua Lothringer was honored as the recipient of the 2019 Theoretical Astrophysics Program (TAP) Graduate Student Research Prize. He presented his prize talk, Extremely Irradiated Hot Jupiters: Non-Oxide Inversions, H- Opacity, and Thermal Dissociation of Molecules, on April 1. Joshua defended his dissertation on May 31; his advisor was Professor Travis

Rachel Fernandes is the 2019 recipient of the Curson travel award.

Tracy Esman, Hamish Hay, and Alessondra Springmann were named as LPL's recipients of the 2019 College of Science Graduate Student Awards.