Recent Awards, News and Press

  • April 2020 - Sarah Carmichael (PI) and Suzanna Bräuer (co-PI) receive NSF-EAR-IF grant (NSF EAR I/F #2019520, $56,458), to upgrade the EDS detector on the transmission electron microscope in the Dewel Microscopy Facility
  • April 2020 - Congratulations to graduate student Morgan Smith, who was just awarded the KWI Wilson Scholarship!

  • December 2019 - Congratulations to graduate student Morgan Smith, who was just awarded a grant from the Cave Conservancy Foundation!

  • March 2017 - Sarah Carmichael inducted as a Fellow into the Explorers Club

  • September 2016 - Sarah Carmichael (PI) and co-PIs across the Departments of Geology and Biology receive NSF-MRI grant (NSF-MRI-EAR #1625137, $561,842) for purchase of a new scanning electron microscope for the Dewel Microscopy Facility

  • August 2016 - Sarah Carmichael elected Councilor of the Mineralogical Society of America (2017-2019 term)

  • April 2016 - Group alumna Mary Jane Carmichael receives the 2016-2017 AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship

  • April 2016 - Suzanna Bräuer receives 100 Scholars Award