Center Director Meenakshi Wadhwa was recently featured on NPR's Science Friday, discussing the 2003 fall of the Park Forest meteorite. Listen to the interview here! […]
Meteorite Gallery part of 2018 Blue Star Museum program
The Center's Meteorite Gallery joins more than 2,000 museums across America to offer free admission to military personnel and their families this summer, in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, and the Department of Defense. Blue Star Museums is a collaboration among the National […]
Center student receives Dwornik Award
We are pleased to announce that Center Ph.D. Candidate Daniel Dunlap has been awarded the Dwornik Award! The award was endowed in 1991 by Dr. Stephen E. Dwornik, who wished to encourage U.S. students to become involved with NASA and planetary science. The Dwornik Award recognizes outstanding student presentations (in both oral and poster categories) […]
Center student receives NASA award
We are pleased to announce that Center Ph.D. Candidate Soumya Ray has been awarded the highly competitive and prestigious NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF)! Soumya's proposal, "A combined investigation of iron and silicon isotopes in meteorites: Implications for planetary accretion and differentiation", was one of only 24 selected from over 220 applications for […]
2018 Graduation Highlights: Alexandra Perez
Given her childhood fascination with the movie Armageddon, about a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with Earth, it’s not surprising that School of Earth and Space Exploration recent grad, Alexandra Perez, focused her studies here at ASU on meteorites. Originally from Jacksonville, Florida, Perez was thrilled to learn in college that she could actually […]
