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.
2025 Spring Graduate Student News
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.
Chaucer was the sole teaching assistant for this writing-intensive class, providing accurate yet encouraging grading for 50+ essays on a weekly basis
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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.
PSI established the award in memory of Senior Scientist Betty Pierazzo to support and encourage graduate students to build
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Nathan Hadland has been named an ARCS Scholar for the 2025-2026 academic year. The ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) Foundation advances science and technology in the United States by providing financial awards to academically outstanding students who are U.S. citizens studying to complete degrees in science, engineering, math
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Madison is a third-year Ph.D. student in Geosciences, completing a graduate minor in Planetary Sciences. She is advised by Associate Professor Christopher Hamilton. Madison is interested in the active eruptions in Fagradalsfjall, Iceland, and how these eruptions can be used for hazard mitigation and planetary analogs.
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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.