Department Highlights

EPS Alumni Receive Science Division's Distinguished Alumni Awards 

Two EPS Alumni, Gabriel Filippelli (Ph.D. ’94, Earth sciences) and Aradhna Tripati (Ph.D. ’02, Earth sciences), will receive the Science Division Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award for achieving extraordinary accomplishments in diverse fields. 

 

Ph.D. Student Pranvera Hyseni awarded Dwornik Award

Pranvera Hyseni was awarded the Dwornik Award for best oral presentation by a graduate student at the 2025 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Pranvera's presentation was titled Investigating the Distribution of Soluble Organic Matter Among Hydrated Asteroid Families.

 

Department Events

Whole Earth Seminar Series - Wednesdays @12pm, EMS B210

April 30, 2025 Speaker: Eyal Rahav, Isreal Oceanographic and Limnological Research Institute

Title: The hitchhiker's guide to bacterial transport: Viable airborne microbes across the Eastern Mediterranean Sea

IGPP Seminar Series - Fridays @12pm, EMS B210

May 2, 2025 Speaker: Thom Chaffee, Stanford University  

Title: Impact or Dynamo Fields? Frontiers in Lunar Magnetism