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THREE CHEERS FOR OUR FINANCIAL WIZARD

Our hats go off to Lorenza Sanchez, astronomy's associate accountant and financial wixard, who recently received one of three new Arts & Sciences staff awards for professional development. Brava, Lorenza!

RECENT ASTRONOMY GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS

Congratulations to graduate students Malynda Chizek, winner of the 2012 Pegasus Award for excellence in teaching, and to Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez, who was recently awarded the 2012 Zia Award for excellence in research. Joining them are the 2013 winner of the Murrell Award for outstanding research or professional development, Maria Patterson, and Liz Klimek, winner of the 2011 Rappaport Award for outstanding public service.

We also congratulate recent PhD Chas Miller for receiving a 2013 College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Graduate Award, and senior student Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez for his 2013 Outstanding Graduate Student Award from the Graduate School.

ONWARDS AND UPWARDS

Our best wishes go out to Dr. Maria Patterson, who defended her PhD work on Properties of Star Formation and the Interstellar Medium in Galaxy Outskirts on April 5, 2013. Three cheers for Maria!

Give an abundant hurrah for Dr. Ryan Hamilton, whose PhD work on Constraining Photospheric Abundances of Donor Stars in Cataclysmic Variables came to fruition on April 4, 2013. Well done, Ryan!

Let's hear it for Dr. Michael Kirk, who defended his PhD thesis on The Anatomy of Chromospheric Flares and Associated Ephemeral Brightenings on February 15, 2013. Bravo, Michael!

Four cheers (one per satellite) for Dr. Chas Miller, for his PhD thesis work on Methods for Constraining Surface Properties and Volatile Migration on Phoebe, Triton, Pluto, and the Moon, presented on February 22, 2013.