The Galileo Circle is looking for students committed to academic excellence and at the forefront of changing and bettering our world.
Funding Source:
Members of the Galileo Circle
How to Apply:
Nominations are typically solicited in early March. Application materials to be submitted to the department includes:
1. Personal Statement (1 page)
2. Resume
3. Letter of support from a College of Science faculty member
The Andersson Award recognizes attention to broader impacts and involvement in activities outside of academic responsibilities that benefit the department, university and the larger community. For example, this student may represent graduate student interests on councils or committees, organize graduate student events, assist departmental recruitment, participate in K-12 outreach, etc.
Funding Source:
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory/Department of Planetary Sciences
The Graduate Teaching Assistant Excellence Award is an LPL initiative which is intended to promote, recognize, and reward exemplary performance among graduate teaching assistants assigned to PTYS undergraduate courses. The award consists of funding intended to be used toward travel and expenses to professional meeting chosen by the recipient. The Department is prepared to make one award per semester. All graduate teaching assistants assigned to PTYS courses are eligible, whether or not their home department is PTYS.
The Shirley D. Curson Education Plus Fund in Planetary Sciences and LPL (formerly the Shandel Education Plus Fund) was established by Shirley Curson, a generous donor and friend of LPL, for the purpose of supporting travel expenses outside the state of Arizona during summer break.
The Annual Donors Travel Awards are supported by gifts, typically of $500 or $1000, from donors. These awards are intended for career advancement, usually associated with travel, for LPL students and staff.
Funding Source:
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory/Department of Planetary Sciences
How to Apply:
This week, I was privileged to assume the LPL Directorship from Tim Swindle. Tim has done an outstanding job guiding the Department and Laboratory over this past decade, an accomplishment for which we should all be very grateful. Looking forward, I have quite a few plans to continue to nurture and grow LPL and I’ll be telling you more about them in future newsletters.
“It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.”
Welcome to the latest edition of the semesterly LPL Newsletter, the last of the 2010s. A lot has happened over this decade, which also coincides with the length of time we’ve been putting out a regular newsletter (the first one came out in Fall 2010).
Welcome to the latest edition of the LPL Newsletter. Those of you with families work to the rhythm of the school calendar. LPL isn't quite as tied to a school-year calendar, but May still has that end-of-the-year feel. The end of the academic year is a time when a lot of awards are announced, and not just for students. In this issue, you’ll find discussions of awards to students, but also to faculty and to staff.
Are we there yet?
At last, we can stop asking that, when it comes to OSIRIS-REx. After nearly a decade of planning and proposing, several years of building instruments, and more than two years of flight, the spacecraft finally arrived at its target asteroid, Bennu, on December 3. In some ways, though, the work is just beginning, with the team mapping and characterizing the asteroid as quickly and as thoroughly as possible in preparation for collecting a sample.
