EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCES NEWS

Graduate Student Peter Lippert receives ARCS Foundation Scholarship

Peter Lippert, a UC Santa Cruz Earth & Planetary Sciences graduate student, has been selected to receive an Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation scholarship for 2007-2008.  This award carries with it honors for Pete's work on tectonics and the biogenic origin of anomalous magnetic minerals, as well as a scholarship in the amount of $10,000.00.

The ARCS Foundation has given UC Santa Cruz over $1.2 million over the last thirty years to support extremely talented students.

The scholarship recipients will be recognized at the annual ARCS Foundation Scholarship Awards Luncheon to be held in San Francisco on October 15, 2007.