The winners of the 2024 Pierazzo International Student Travel Award established by the Planetary Science Institute have been selected.
The Pierazzo International Student Travel Award was established by PSI in memory of Senior Scientist Betty Pierazzo to support and encourage graduate students to build international collaborations and relationships in planetary science.
Salvatore Buoninfante (Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”) will receive the award as a non-U.S.-based graduate student going to a planetary-related conference within the U.S., and Pa Chia Thao (University of North Carolina) and Kiersten Boley (Ohio State University) will receive awards as U.S.-based graduate students going to a planetary-related conference outside of the U.S.
Buoninfante will be attending the 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, March 11-15, 2024. His research title is “Relationship between tectonic and crustal structures of Mercury.” Thao will be attending Exoplanets V in Leiden, The Netherlands, June 16-21, 2024. Her research title is “Probing the Atmosphere of the 17 Myr, Gas Giant, HIP 67522b with JWST.” Boley will be attending Extreme Solar Systems V in Christchurch, New Zealand, March 16-21, 2024. Her research title is “The First Evidence of a Metallicity Cliff in the Formation of Super-Earths.”
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