We are pleased to announce that Ph.D. candidates Emilie Dunham, Daniel Dunlap, and Zachary Torrano have been awarded Graduate Excellence Awards by ASU's College of Liberal Arts and Science. The college recognizes outstanding graduate students who have been nationally acknowledged through funded fellowships, scholarships, and grants. Eligible students receive funds to advance their research and…

The Center for Meteorite Studies and the School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) are pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Nininger Student Travel Award. The goal of this award is to support travel to the annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) of up to 4 SESE undergraduate and graduate students to…

This March, several members of the Center for Meteorites Studies presented new findings at the 49th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), in Houston, Texas.  The Center's presentations covered a range of topics in meteoritics and cosmochemistry, including meteorites from asteroid Vesta, carbonaceous chondrites, meteorite petrology, the solar wind, and processes in the early Solar…

The clean lab curlers of Team Isotopes were in Las Vegas this weekend, for the World Men's Curling Championship!  Thanks to Curling Las Vegas, Team Isotopes got to meet men's Olympic curling gold medalists John Shuster, Matt Hamilton, and Joe Polo, who took on the budding sport of meteorite curling – video below! The Center…

Congratulations to Center for Meteorite Studies Ph. D. student Soumya Ray, who has been awarded a Summer Exploration Graduate (SEG) Fellowship! The SEG Fellowship Program encourages and supports summer exploration activities by graduate students  in all of the research areas within the School of Earth and Space Exploration. The SEG Fellowship Program seeks creative and…