HONORIFIC AWARD

For Studies of Matter at Extreme High-Pressure Conditions. Danae champions the design of the NSF OPAL flagship experimental platform “Ultrafast Laboratory Astrophysics and Planetary Physics” that seeks to combine three…

Sarah Stewart is a Professor at Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration. The Meteoritical Society presents the 2025 Barringer Medal to Sarah for her outstanding achievements in…

Eva Zurek, professor of chemistry, is a “star” in theoretical condensed matter physics and computational materials chemistry. In 2024, she is named Distinguished Professors in recognition of their international prominence…

Dr. Ian Ocampo, a 2024 Princeton alumnus, was recognized as an Outstanding Student Presentation Award recipient for his presentation, Optical, mechanical, and elastic response of MgO shock-compressed to 150 GPa,…

Kyla de Villa, a Ph.D. student in the Earth and Planetary Science Department at UC Berkeley, received the John C. Jamieson Student Paper Award in the 2024 Mineral and Rock Physics section.

Sara Seager, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, won the 2024 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics, "for their ground-breaking work on the discovery and characterization of extra-solar planets and their atmospheres.”

Thomas Duffy, professor of geosciences at Princeton University, was awarded as an American Geophysical Union College of Fellows Distinguished Lecturer in 2023-24, in Earth Interior, Mineral and Rock Physics for his abstract, "Journey to the Center of a Super-Earth." He was also selected as a 2023 Mercator Fellow in the Matter Under Planetary Interior Conditions Research Unit by the German Research Foundation.

Danae Polsin, a scientist in the High-Energy-Density Experimental Physics Group at the Laser Laboratory for Energetics and an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester, received the 2023 Outstanding Young Alum Award from the SUNY Geneseo Alumni Association.

For her leadership in the fields of astrophysics and planetary science and as a leader in the field of exoplanet atmospheres, Sara Seager received a Doctor of Science, honoris causa, from the University of Toronto in June 2023.

Maureen Zhang, a CMAP Research Experience for High Schoolers (REH) program alumna, won 2nd place in the category of physics and astronomy at ISEF Regeneron 2023, a highly competitive international science competition for high school students with nearly 3,000 student attendees. M. Zhang presented a machine learning project to determine the number of exoplanets in planetary systems.