Announcements and Recent News
ISP and Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS) Field Trip
On October 24, EPS professor Seth Stein led a group of ISP and EPS students on a field trip to Glacial Park in McHenry County, IL. This park covers over 2,806 acres and has a rich biological diversity. In addition to learning many interesting facts about the topography of the park, everyone had a great time.
With the sun finally peaking through the clouds, ISP and EPS students and faculty gather for a group picture.
Seth Stein discusses global warming.
Congratulations to the 2009 Graduating Class!
Front Row (Left to Right): Samanta Brown, Heather Hoke, Swati Patel, Rebecca Fischer, ISP Director SonBinh Nguyen. Back Row: Dane Holte, Sharan Srinivasan, Jeff Andrews, Rene Boiteau, Rohan Kumthekar, Matt Bierbaum, Gene Lee, Ben Rolfs, Ryo Kita, James Kath, Eric Kramer, and Albert Kang (EC04). Not pictured: Daniel Dranove and Oliver Chen.
Sharan Srinivasan received our first-ever ISP Student Service Award, while Eric Kramer and James Kath shared the ISP Honors Prize. We also gave our first Faculty Service Awards to Professors David Buchholz, Indira Raman, and Michael Stein for the dedication to ISP.
See more photos here.
EC05 student Samantha Brown recently won a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG). The Department of Defense is committed to increasing the number and quality of our nation's scientists and engineers and it has created this fellowship, which is highly competitive and confers high honors upon its recipients. Visit ndseg.asee.org/ndseg_fellows/2009_awardees to learn more.
Sharan Srinivason (EC05) was awarded a spot in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Graduate Partnerships Program this spring. According to the NIH, "The Graduate Partnerships Program (GPP) was crafted to take advantage of the best of two worlds – the academic environment of highly respected universities and the breadth and depth of research at NIH. The goal is to create a different kind of graduate experience, one which purposefully focuses on skills of the future scientist and how discoveries will be made in the decades ahead." See gpp.nih.gov/Current/ for more details.
Two current ISP students Zack Nicolaou and Aleksandr Zhukhovitskiy (both EC07) were recently awarded Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships for the 2008-2009 academic year. The Goldwater Scholarship is one of the most desirable undergraduate awards. More information about the scholarship can be found at www.act.org/goldwater.
Rene Boiteau (EC05) was recently awarded a Churchill Scholarship. The Churchill Foundation's Scholarship Program offers American students of exceptional ability and outstanding academic achievement the opportunity to pursue one year of graduate studies in engineering, mathematics, or the sciences at Churchill College, the University of Cambridge. More information can be found at www.winstonchurchillfoundation.org/Scholarships.html.
Rene also won a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. to carry out graduate studies in the Cambridge Earth Sciences department during the 2009-2010 school year. In addition, Rene won the Frank N. & Lee L. Corbin Prize from the Northwestern Weinberg College, which is presented to an outstanding senior attending graduate or professional school.
Ryosuke Kita (EC05) recently received a Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award from the NIH. More information about the award can be found at www.training.nih.gov/student/Pre-IRTA/irtamanualpostbac.asp .
Sam Brown (EC05) received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. According the the NSF website, "The Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) offers our nation's research leaders of tomorrow exceptional funding with 3 years of graduate support worth thousands of dollars." Visit www.nsfgrfp.org for more information.
Swati Patel (EC05) was selected as a Fulbright winner. For her proposed Fulbright study, Swati proposes to carry out the genetic mapping of avian populations in South America. Visit http://www.cies.org/NewToFulbright.htm for more information on the Fulbright program.
Rebecca Fischer (EC05) recently earned a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. According the the NSF website, "The Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) offers our nation's research leaders of tomorrow exceptional funding with 3 years of graduate support worth thousands of dollars." Visit www.nsfgrfp.org for more information.
Recent Research:
ISP alum James Hebden (EC03) working with Earth and Planetary Science faculty member Seth Stein recently published "Time-dependent Seismic Hazard Maps for the New Madrid Seismic Zone and Charleston, South Carolina Areas" in Seismological Research Letters (Seis. Res. Lett., 80, 12-20, 2009). See the full text here.
Past news:
Congratulations to the 2008 Graduating Class!
Left to Right: Jennifer Hobbs, Alessa Gambardella, Will Defliese, Brendan Neschke, Vivian Leung, Nicole Carlson, Tim Linden, Justin Lieber, Thomas Wytock, Mitch Bekritsky, Brian Radak, Joe Yelk, Jeff Chen, Seth Myers, Avinash Honasoge, Suraj Pradhan, Gabe Weil, and Yusuke Sakamoto. Not pictured: Ben Chartoff, Michael Clark, and Michael Kasa.
