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Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences awards

The W. O. Crosby Award for Sustained Excellence--The award recognizes achievement, both academic and intellectual, as well as participation in Department activities
- Roxana G. Safipour '09, Saratoga, Calif.

The Christopher Goetze Prize for Undergraduate Research--The award recognizes innovative experimental design, care in data collection, and sensitive application of results to research problems
-Sarah E. Gelman '09, Downers Grove, Ill.

The Award for Excellence in Teaching--The award recognizes the graduate student teaching assistants in EAPS who are selected by faculty and students as having met the highest standards of performance
- Terrence Blackburn G
- Laura Meredith G
- Alex Petroff G
- Alessondra Springmann G

The Carl-Gustaf Rossby Award--The award recognized the best PhD thesis done in the preceding year within the EAPS Program of Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate
- Elke Hodson, PhD '08

A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on June 3, 2009 (download PDF).

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