Inside this issue:

• Letter from the Chair
• Geology Renovations
• Research Focus: Sarah Penniston-Dorland
• Faculty Highlight: Jerry Weidner
• Department Field Trip
• Graduate Student Highlight: Chris Yakymchuk
• Undergraduate Student Highlight: Irene Kadel-Harder
• Distinguished Alum: C. Scott Southworth
• Recognition and Awards
• Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) Undergraduate Student Travel Award: Alex Kendall, Jesse Kolb, Natalie Sievers
• Marc Lipella Foundation Scholarship Award: Tom Doody and Sean Kayser
• Senior Thesis
• Alumni News
• Donor Acknowledgment