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2020 - 2021 Graduate Student Awards and Degrees

Congratulations to the following students who received awards and special recognition for their efforts in 2021-22 and to the students who graduated.

Awards, Recognition, and Service

  • Carl Aquino - 2022-2023 Graduate Fellow for Science Advocacy and Diversity (College of EMS) 2022 Catherine Lyons Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Graduate Student Award (College of EMS)
     
  • Kirsty McKenzie - Geophysics and Geodynamics Division Outstanding Student Presentation Award, GSA Connects 2021
     
  • Karen Pham –  Association for Women Geoscientists Sand Award
     
  • Karen Pham – Best oral presentation by a student member of the Geobiology and Geomicrobiology Division at the GSA 2021 meeting
     
  • Judit Gonzalez Santana – AGU 2021 Outstanding Student Presentation Award
     
  • Garrett Sheperd - NSF GRFP Incentive Award
     
  • Tengxiang Wang - Environmental Scholars in the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI)
     

Degrees awarded 2021-22

Summer 2021

 

Fall 2021

 

Spring 2022

 

2020 - 2021 Recipients

Congratulations to the following students who received awards and special recognition for their efforts in 2020-21 and to the students who graduated.

Awards, Recognition, and Service

  • Carl F. Aquino - EMS Graduate Fellows for Science Advocacy and Diversity (EMS-GFSAD)
     
  • Adam Benfield - LacCore Visiting Graduate Student Program
     
  • Adam Benfield - R. J. Cuffey Fund for Paleontology
     
  • Julia Carr - George Schenck Teaching Assistant Award
     
  • Fai Chanchai – On to the Future Award (GSA)
     
  • Si Chen - Mineralogical Society of America Grant in Crystallography from the Edward H. Kraus Crystallographic Research Fund
     
  • Katie Horisk - Honorable Mention NSF Graduate Research Fellowship 
     
  • Katie Horisk - Elsevier Organic Geochemistry Research Scholarship  
     
  • Kirsty Mckenzie - Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA) at AGU 2021
     
  • Esther Munoz - SACNAS received the Outstanding Marketing award for the 2021 Student Org Awards from the school (https://studentaffairs.psu.edu/involvement-student-life/student-awards-r...) along with several nominations. As president of SACNAS, and having Victor R. Garcia on the executive board.
     
  • Karen Pham – Fulbright Research Grant (Oslo, Norway)
     
  • Kirsten Stephens - Penn State ICDS Virtual Symposium 2020, 1st place Virtual Poster, Fall 2020
     
  • Kirsten Stephens  - vVMSG Annual Meeting 2021, 2nd place Talk presentation, Spring 2021
     

Degrees awarded 2020-21

Summer 2020

Allison Fox, Ph.D
Heather Jones, Ph.D
Shelby Lyons, Ph.D
Alexander Neely, Ph.D
Jeffrey Leeburn, MS
Dorivaldo Santos, MS

Fall 2020

Gregory Wong, Ph.D
Rebecca Payne, Ph.D
Oluwaseyi Ajayi, Ph.D
Clarissa Crist, MS
Jennifer Estrada, MS
Lisa Ma, MS
Sierra Melton, MS
Colin Oborn, MS
Mary Reinthal, MS

Spring 2021

Shrishraran Shreedharan, Ph.D.

(No M.S. graduates)

2019 - 2020 Recipients

Congratulations to the following students who received awards and special recognition for their efforts in 2019-20 and to the students who graduated.

Awards, Recognition, and Service

  • Adam Benfield - Center for Landscape Dynamics Research Award
  • Julia Carr - Grand Prize winner (one of eight) for the 2019 AGU Data Visualization and Storytelling Competition
  • Si Chen - stipend from the ASTRO research program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and a free admission to NX School (National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering)
  • Joanmarie Del Vecchio - Winner of the 2019 Wiley Award from the British Society of Geomorphology
  • Alejandra Domic - (postdoc)- Marie Curie award granted by the National Academy of Sciences of Bolivia
  • Arnold Eatmon – College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Graduate Fellow for Science Advocacy and Diversity for 2019-2020 and 2020-2021
  • Arnold Eatmon – College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Jay M. and Katherine Definis Outstanding Student Leadership Award
  • Troy Ferland - 2019-2020 GSA Charles A. and June R.P. Ross Research Fund Recipient.
  • Victor Garcia - GSA Graduate Geoscience Research Grant
  • Katie Horisk - Cleveland Museum of Natural History Hoskins Grant
  • Sofia Johnson-Gutiérrez - College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Graduate Fellow for Science Advocacy and Diversity for 2020-2021
  • Kirsty McKenzie - AGeS2 Geochronology Research Award from GSA to quantify differential uplift across the Yaquina Bay fault, Oregon using Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) of marine terraces sands.
  • Collin Oborn – earned an Honorable Mention for his NSF graduate student research fellowship application
  • Emily Schwans - Member of the Science Organization Committee for the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC) Next Generation meeting last year, a key effort as part of the large international ITGC.
  • Srisharan Shreedharan - Schlanger Ocean Discovery Fellowship awardee for the 2019-20 year
  • Guangchi Xing - Dr. and Mrs. S. Norman Domenico Scholarship by SEG

Degrees awarded 2019-20

Fall 2019

  • Perri Silverhart, M.S.
  • Cathleen Bressers, M.S.
  • Damaris Wyatt, M.S.
  • Chloe Stanton, M.S.
  • Aoshuang Ji, M.S.
  • Abby Kenigsberg, Ph.D
  • David Yoxtheimer, Ph.D.
  • Judith Sclafani, Ph.D.
  • Thamer Alotaibi, Ph.D.
  • Virginia Marcon, Ph.D.

Spring 2020

(No M.S. graduates)

  • Allison Karp, Ph.D.
  • Austin White-Gaynor, Ph.D.
  • Erica Pitcavage, Ph.D.