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 Barman. In August, he will begin a postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University.