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T. C. Chamberlin Postdoctoral Fellowships
The Department of the Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago invites applications for the T.C. Chamberlin Postdoctoral Fellowships. We are interested in outstanding scientists who probe the fundamental nature of Earth and other planetary bodies, their physics, biology, chemistry, and history, and who have a desire to participate in the broad intellectual life of the Department and the University. Start date is negotiable, but our target is 1 October 2010. The inital term of the Fellowships will be one year, renewable for a second year. Salary will be $52,000 per year, plus benefits. Consideration of applications will begin 15 November 2009. Please email a single pdf file containting a CV, statement of research interests, and names and contact information for at least three references, to: chamberlin@geosci.uchicago.edu. The University of Chicago is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
Bob Clayton to receive J. Lawrence Smith Medal
Professor Emeritus Robert N. Clayton has been selected to receive the J. Lawrence Smith Medal of the National Academy of Sciences. This award, which will be conferred 26 April at the Academy's annual meeting, is given for "recent original and meritorious investigations of meteoric bodies" and recognizes Bob's work using oxygen isotopes to understand the genesis of meteorites. Bob joins a list of distinguished University of Chicago faculty (Mark Inghram, Harold Urey, and Edward Anders) and former graduate students (Clair Patterson, John Reynolds, Jerry Wasserburg and George Wetherill) who have received this award.
Census of modern organisms reveals echo of ancient mass extinction
February 5, 2008
Andrew Z. Krug
Comet particles provide glimpse of solar system’s birth spasms
November 17, 2008
Steven Simon, lead scientist of a study of particles from comet Wild 2
2008 Annual Presolar Grain Workshop at the University of Chicago
October 26, 2008
The annual Clemson-Washington University-University of Chicago-Carnegie Institution of Washington presolar grain workshop will be held, all day Saturday November 22nd and half of Sunday November 23rd at The University of Chicago (Chicago, IL) in the Henry Hinds Laboratory for Geophysical Sciences (5734 South Ellis Avenue).
Paleontology flourishes in ‘Chicago-zoic’ era
October 23, 2008
George W. Platzman, meteorologist, 1920-2008
August 18, 2008
George W. Platzman (Photo: University of Chicago)
Chicago scientist to receive Leonard Medal for study of extraterrestrial matter
August 8, 2008
Lawrence Grossman, Professor in Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago, will receive the 2009 Leonard Medal from the Meteoritical Society.
(Photo: Dan Dry)
Lavas from Hawaiian volcano contain fingerprint of planetary formation
June 19, 2008
Eruption Hill in Kilauea Iki crater on the Big Island of Hawaii. In December 1959, lava spurted 1,900 feet high from this location. Working with lava samples from the crater, scientists at the University of Chicago and elsewhere have devised a new tool for reconstructing planetary origins.
(Photo: Steve Koppes)
The European Association of Geochemistry will award the 2008 Houtermans Medal to cosmochemist Nicolas Dauphas
March 20, 2008
Paleontologists add to fossil record, prize-winning record
February 7, 2008
Rebecca Terry, the recipient of the 2007 Alfred Sherwood Romer Prize from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, examines a fossil in the Hinds Laboratory.
(Photo: Dan Dry)
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