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School of Rock

Oct 18, 2017 | Rachel Bernard, PhD 2018

Over the past 4+ years, I’ve learned that if nothing else, working on your PhD will take you to some unexpected places. This summer, it was a drillship. For a geoscience education workshop. For three weeks. Almost every year the International Oceanic Discovery Program (IODP) holds a workshop called School of Rock…

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JSG at JSC

Sep 22, 2017 | Scott Eckley, M.S. 2018

Imaging the first light produced after the Big Bang…capturing solar wind… studying pristine rocks from the moon…Sounds like science fiction, right? However, a group of graduate students from the Jackson School were able to visit NASA’s Johnson Space Center and witness first-hand the research, instruments, and facilities that you only…

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(Grand) Stairway to Tyrannosaurs: A Call to Protect Our Public Lands

Jul 6, 2017 | Joshua Lively, PhD 2018

For the last seven field seasons, I’ve worked in the Cretaceous Kaiparowits Formation of southern Utah with paleontologists from the University of Utah (where I earned my master’s degree working on extinct turtles; Fig. 1), the Natural History Museum of Utah, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and the…

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ToScA Texas 2017

Jun 8, 2017 | Emily H. G. Cooperdock, PhD 2017

A confluence of ~ 70 geologists, anthropologists, biologists and material scientists descended upon Austin June 6-8th for the first ever ToScA (Tomography for Scientific Advancement) meeting in North America. This is a group who really likes to 3D print and make fancy rotating, reconstructed 3D videos for their powerpoint presentations. After two days looking…

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March for Science, Y’all!

May 16, 2017 | Kimmy McCormack and Mike O'Connor, PhD 2018

This has been a very weird semester. As a fourth year PhD student, I have found myself running between class and my research on campus and the Capitol building 3 days a week for an internship in Senator Watson’s office, while almost accidentally falling into an organizational role for Austin…

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