LPL alumnus Dr. Dwight Hoxie passed away on December 27, 2024.

LPL alumni Dr. Michelle Thompson (2016) and Dr. James Keane (2017) were honored as 2024 Presidential Early Career Scientists by former U.S. President Joe Biden.

Dora is one of 46 undergraduate students minoring in Astrobiology.

Sarah Nielsen is one of 19 PTYS undergraduate minors.

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

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.

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

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.

The Art of Planetary Science returned to LPL Spring 2025.