2025 Spring Graduate Student News

The Gerard P. Kuiper Memorial Award is presented to students who best exemplify, through the high quality of their research and the excellence of their scholastic achievements, the goals and standards established and maintained by Gerard Kuiper, founder of LPL.

Award honors attention to broader impacts and involvement in activities that benefit the department, university and the larger community.

Chaucer Langbert won this year’s Graduate Teaching Assistant Excellence Award for their support of PTYS/ASTR 170A1 Alien Earths with instructor Dr. Joe Schools during the Fall 2024 semester.

The Planetary Science Institute has selected University of Arizona graduate student Namya Baijal as one of two recipients of the 2025 of the 2025 Pierazzo International Student Travel Award.

Nathan Hadland has been named an ARCS Scholar for the 2025-2026 academic year.

Madison is a third-year Ph.D. student in Geosciences, completing a graduate minor in Planetary Sciences.

The Curson Travel Award will support three PTYS Graduate Students for summer research travel.

Nine PTYS graduate students were awarded Galileo Circle Scholarships for 2025.

Three LPL Graduate Students receive UA/NASA Space Grant Fellowships.