Lab assistant Tess Van Orden was named an American Geological Institute Minority Participation Program Scholar. (September 2009)

Noah Miller successfully completed his M.S. thesis: Melting and Phase Relations in Fe-Si Alloys with Applications to the Earth's Core. (June 2009)

Incoming graduate student Rebecca Fischer was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. (May 2009)

Caroline Harbitz was awarded the Monroe Martin Prize for Undergraduate Research for her senior thesis project: Phase Transitions of Perovskites in the Earth's Lower Mantle. The prize is awarded by the Institute for Physical Science and Technology to a deserving physics major each year. (May 2009)

Greg Shofner was awarded a fellowship from the NASA Graduate Student Research Program. Greg will visit Johnson Space Center later this year to investigate metal/silicate partitioning at high pressures, using multianvil experiments in Kevin Righter's lab. (April 2009)

Rebecca Fischer has decided to join our group as a graduate student later this year, and has been awarded a Flagship Fellowship from the University of Maryland Graduate School. As an undergraduate at Northwestern University, Rebecca produced a high-P,T phase diagram of wüstite while visiting us as an REU-supported intern last summer. (April 2009)

Undergraduate physics major Caroline Harbitz has chosen to attend the University of Washington for graduate school this fall. (March 2009)

Andy Campbell received a CAREER award from NSF for his proposal: High Pressure Melting and Phase Transitions in Model Compositions of Earth's Core. (November 2008)

Andy Campbell received the Distinguished Assistant Professor award from the Board of Visitors of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences at the University of Maryland. (October 2008)

Andrew Campbell
Laboratory for Mineral Physics
Department of Geology
University of Maryland