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November 15, 2021

Graduate Students at UTIG Awarded Presidential Scholarship

UTIG graduate research assistants are among Jackson School students to have been awarded The University of Texas at Austin’s Unrestricted Endowed Presidential Scholarship.

The award recognizes outstanding academic achievement. Each student will receive at least $2,500 in unrestricted funds.

The 2021 UTIG recipients were:

Portrait of UTIG graduate research assistant Abby Varona

Abby Varona

A 2nd year M.S. student studying deepwater stratigraphy.

Catherine Ross

A Ph.D. student studying how minerals record impact cratering processes, from the extreme pressures of the initial impact to material getting flung around the world.

Claudia Banks

A Ph.D. candidate studying sedimentology with Brian Horton.

Ethan Conrad

Completing a doctoral degree on how landscapes deform in response to tectonic and surface processes.

Josh Malone

A Ph.D. student studying the tectonic evolution of Northern Patagonia.

Juan Gutierrez

In his Ph.D. research, Juan looks for sedimentary evidence of slab flattening and slab steepening in the foreland basins adjacent to the Eastern Cordillera of the northern Andes, Colombia.

Picture of Naoma holding up a bag of slime

Naoma McCall

A doctoral candidate studying the deformation of rocks from the Chicxulub and Ries impact structures to better understand the impact cratering process.

Simone Puel

Completing a doctoral degree, where he uses advanced inverse techniques to solve computational problems for modeling megathrust earthquakes in subduction zones.

portrait of Zach Murphy

Zach Murphy

Completing a doctoral degree studying experimental methods of carbon storage.

The students were nominated for the scholarship by their advisors on behalf of the Jackson School’s Department of Geological Sciences. Including the UTIG recipients, there were nineteen Jackson School graduate students to receive the scholarship.

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