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Graduate Student Ashley Hanna won an Outstanding Student Presentation Award at the AGU 2024 Annual Meeting.

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Graduate student Karla Núñez has been selected for the Graduate School’s Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Fang-Zhen Teng (Ph.D '05) received a UMD Alumni Excellence Award in Research. This award recognizes alumni that make positive impacts on the world through their research. read more...
Graduate Student Madeline Raith won a NASA FINESST Award to study Mars mineralogy.
Professor Sarah Penniston-Dorland has been elected president of the Mineralogical Society of America

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