New PhD student, Cole Stern, was chosen for the highest honor for incoming graduate students at Penn State: the University Graduate Fellowship. Read more here: https://www.psu.edu/news/graduate-school/story/114-graduate-students-recognized-university-fellowships/ 

Hanna Leapaldt's proposal "Identifying the fingerprint of microbial autotrophy on magnesium carbonate" was selected for funding by NASA's Future Investigators in Earth and Space Science and Technology fellowship program! Hanna will officially be a NASA fellow 2023-2026. Congrats, Hanna!!