Faculty and Student Awards

Graduate Student Ashley Hanna won an Outstanding Student Presentation Award at the AGU 2024 Annual Meeting.
Other news...
- 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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Colloquium - Charlotte Devitre from University of California Berkeley
Friday, March 28, 2025
11:00 am
ESJ 0215
Quantifying CO2 via Raman Spectroscopy: new frontiers for volatile studies, magma storage depths and rapid petrology
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Monday, March 31, 2025
2:00 pm
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Why is chlorine so concentrated in deep slab fluids?
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Thursday, April 10, 2025
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