Xiangyu Li is recognized by AGU to receive the Outstanding Student Paper Award for his presentation at the 2011 Fall Meeting of AGU in San Francisco.

Professor David Valentine is interviewed live on the PBS News Hour on the two-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Listen to the broadcast.

Professor Toshiro Tanimoto is elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.

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Jesse Mosolf will give a talk entitled Detailed geologic field mapping and radiometric dating of the Abanico Formation in the Principal Cordillera, central Chile: Evidence of protracted volcanism and implications for Andean tectonics at Speakers Club in Webb Hall 1100 at 2:00 PM sharp.

Memorial Day is a University holiday.