It’s been a productive year! Here is a brief list of highlights with links.
Personnel recruitment, honors and awards:
- RPI graduate student Bradley Burcar became the first recipient of the James P. Ferris Fellowship in Astrobiology
- RPI Astrobiologist Bruce Watson received an honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Chicago
- Dr Karyn Rogers joined the RPI Department of Earth & Environmental Science as an Assistant Professor of Astrobiology
Education and Public Outreach:
- 2013 ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp
- 2013 Astrobiology Teachers Academy
Research:
- RPI astrobiologist flies SOFIA to observe exoplanets
- NASA Mars Rover Curiosity finds water in its first sample of the planet’s surface. The results of this research published in Science were also featured in a New York Times article
- Astrobiology Strategic Planning Webinar: Origin of Organic Monomers
- Rensselaer researchers propose new theory to explain seeds of life in asteroids
- Rensselaer astronomers study the stuff of future planets in an interstellar cloud
- Rensselaer Astrobiologist publishes new research on “Eyeball Earths”