2022-23 Award Winners
Congratulations to the following students who received awards and special recognition for their efforts in 2022-23 and to the students who graduated.
Awards, Recongnition, and Service
- Safiya Alpheus: Marathon Alumni Centennial Graduate Fellowship
- Carl F. Aquino: EMS Graduate Fellowship for Science Advocacy and Diversity; Catherine Lyon Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award
- Danielle Buchheister: Funds for Excellence in Graduate Recruitment (FEGR); NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
- Luis Alejandro Giraldo Ceron: Geological Society of America (GSA) Graduate Student Research Grant
- Rory Changleng: University Graduate Fellowship (UGF)
- Chanel Deane: Marathon Alumni Centennial Graduate Fellowship
- Juliana Drozd: Funds for Excellence in Graduate Recruitment (FEGR)
- Ran He: Geological Society of America (GSA) Graduate Student Research Grant; MSA Grant for Student Research in Mineralogy and Petrology, Mineralogical Society of America; Evolving Earth Foundation Grant, Evolving Earth Foundation
- Hanna Leapaldt: Institutes of Energy and the Environment (IEE) Biogeochemistry Award
- Sierra M. Melton: AGU Local Science Partners Ambassador
- Fran Meyer: Funds for Excellent in Graduate Recruitment (FEGR); Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI) Environmental Scholar Award
- Kate Meyers: Geological Society of America (GSA) Graduate Student Research Grant
- Karen Pham: GSA/NSF Graduate Student Research Grant; Paleontological Society Rodney M. Feldmann Research Grant; Penn State Center for Land Dynamics Research Grant; AWG Sand Award; Best oral presentation from the Geobiology and Geomicrobiology Division at GSA 2021
- Jackson Saftner: Marathon Alumni Centennial Graduate Fellowship
- Judit Gonzalez Santana: NASA FINESST (Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology) Program Grant; Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA), AGU Fall 2021 Meeting
- Youki Sato: Marathon Alumni Centennial Graduate Fellowship
- Noshin Sharmili: Funds for Excellence in Graduate Recruitment (FEGR) Award
- Garrett Shephard: Anne C. Wilson Graduate Fellowship; AAPG Grants-in-Aid Award; Marathon Alumni Centennial Graduate Fellowship
- Edward Spagnuolo: Dean’s Distinguished Graduate Scholarship (DDGS); EMS Wilson Award; Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI) Environmental Scholar Award; NSF Graduate Fellowship Application Incentive Award; NSF Graduate Research Fellowship; Dean Edward Steidle Memorial Scholar Award
- Miranda Sturtz: Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI) Environmental Scholar Award
- Jasmine Walker: EMS Graduate Fellowship for Science Advocacy and Diversity: Marathon Alumni Centennial Graduate Fellowship
- Tengxiang Wang: Geological Society of America (GSA) Graduate Student Research Grant; Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI) Environmental Scholar Award
- Amanda Willet: NASA FINESST (Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology) Program Grant
- Zi Xian: Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)/Chevron Student Leadership Symposium (SLS) 2022 Award
Degrees awarded 2021-22
Spring 2022
- Troy Ferland (PhD)
- Benjamin Hayworth (PhD)
- Julia LaFond (MS)
Summer 2022
- Julia Carr (PhD)
- Kirsty McKenzie (PhD)
- Guangchi Xing (PhD)
- James Pippin (MS)
- Kaitlin Taylor (MS)
- Megan Martin (Transferred to College of Education for MEd)
Fall 2022
- Jacob Cipar (PhD)
- Andrew Shaughnessy (PhD)
- Erica Lucas (PhD)
- Benjamin Barnes (PhD)