Faculty and Student Awards
Professor Sarah Penniston-Dorland has been elected president of the Mineralogical Society of America
- Alan Jay Kaufman has been named a 2024 Distinguished University Professor read more...
- Graduate Student Zach Vig was awarded Best Student Talk at the 2024 NASA Exploration Science Forum. His talk was titled Visible Near-Infrared Spectral Evidence for Olivine in the Gruithuisen Domes. Watch his talk here.
- Graduate Student Tytrice Faison received an Honorable Mention for her presentation at the campus-wide Three-Minute Thesis competition. Her talk was titled "UMD: Unravel Meteoritic Dating".
- Graduate Student Elaine Jaross been selected to receive an Outstanding Student Presentation Award for her presentation at the 2023 annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
Upcoming Events
Colloquium - Yuanzhi Tang from Georgia Institute of Technology
Friday, October 25, 2024
11:00 am
ESJ 0215
A geochemist’s approach for critical mineral resource recovery
Colloquium - Elizabeth Cottrell from Smithsonian Museum of Natural History/Department of Mineral Sciences
Friday, November 1, 2024
11:00 am
ESJ 0215
TBD
James Bader Dissertation Defense
Monday, November 4, 2024
1:00 pm
SQH 1119
Quantification of melt distribution, melt connectivity, and anisotropic permeability of deformed partially molten rocks using x-ray microtomography