2006 Nininger Award Winner announced

The Center for Meteorite Studies is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2006 Nininger Meteorite Award is Nicolas Ouellette, a graduate student working with Steven Desch and Jeff Hester at Arizona State University. Nicolas was among ten undergraduate and graduate students from across the country who submitted papers to the 2006 Nininger Meteorite Award competition. Each submission was reviewed by a panel of experts from a broad array of fields in meteoritical science. The panel cited Nicolas’s paper, entitled “Injection of Supernova Dust into the Protoplanetary Disk” for its exciting and innovative combination of astronomical observations, meteorite isotope chemistry measurements and modeling results to address the origin and distribution of short-lived radionuclides in the Solar System.