Did you know that the Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies offers loanable classroom modules focusing on The Origin of Meteorites? Module lessons and activities are aligned to the National Science Education Standards (Grades 5-12) and the Arizona Academic Content Standards, and modules can be loaned to K-12 and informal educators. Each module contains actual specimens […]
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Where are we now: Emilie Dunham
Catch up with Center alumni through this periodic feature! Dr. Emilie Dunham received her doctoral degree in 2020, from the ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration. Her research in the Center for Meteorite Studies focused on constraining the astrophysical birth environment of the Solar System, for which she was granted a NASA Earth and […]
NASA Administrator and US Senator visit ASU meteorite collection
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and U.S. Senator Mark Kelly recently visited the School of Earth and Space Exploration and toured the Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies collection vault with Curator Dr. Laurence Garvie and Interim Director Dr. Devin Schrader. Read about their visit and vault tour, and see more photos, here! […]
Where are we now: Audrey Bouvier
Catch up with Center alumni through this periodic feature! Dr. Audrey Bouvier was a postdoctoral scholar and faculty research associate in the Center for Meteorites Studies from 2007 to 2011. While at ASU, her research focused on unraveling the chronology of planetary processes that took place during the first few million years of Solar System […]
Center joins Blue Star Museums 2022
The Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies is pleased to announce that we have once again joined museums nationwide in the Blue Star Museums initiative, a program that provides free admission to currently-serving U.S. military personnel and their families throung Monday, September 5, 2022. Find the list of participating museums at arts.gov/bluestarmuseums. Blue Star Museums is […]