We had the pleasure of having Prof. Barbara Romanowicz give the Memorial Mautner Lecture, during which Igor Stubailo was one of two recipients of the Mautner award. Congratulations Igor!
Congratulations to a new doctor!
Congratulations to Igor Stubailo for a successful PhD defense!
New NSF grant awarded!
C.B. and collaborators at the University of Maryland and the Scripps Institution for Oceanography have been awarded a new grant by the National Science Foundation: “Collaborative Research: Detecting Seismic Anisotropy in the Upper Mantle and Upper Mantle Transition Zone” (NSF EAR #1446978).
AGU 2014
Our group has 4 presentations at the 2014 AGU Fall meeting. Look for us in sessions DI22A, S41D, S51C, and S53A. In addition, C.B. is co-convener of a DI session “The Mantle Transition Zone: Its Role in Earth’s Thermochemical Evolution” starting Wednesday 17 December at 10:20am!
![Zheng Xing in front of his poster](http://faculty.epss.ucla.edu/~cbeghein/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/IMG_0950-300x300.jpg)
NSF grant!
Very exciting news for our group! A new project in collaboration with Prof. Nicholas Schmerr (Maryland) and Prof. Gabi Laske (SIO, UCSD) is recommended for funding by the National Science Foundation!
EPSS8 Field Trip
C.B. took her ‘Earthquakes’ class to see the San Andreas fault and Vasquez Rocks
Goodbye to a great student
Last Friday, I said goodbye to my first graduate student, Kaiqing Yuan, who just started a postdoc in the Berkeley Seismo Lab. You will be missed, Kaiqing, but congratulations on this wonderful opportunity!
EPSS Commencement Ceremony 2014
The EPSS commencement ceremony took place on 14 June 2014. All of our group’s students were getting a degree: Grace Parker got a Bachelor of Science, Zheng Xing got a Masters, and Kaiqing Yuan got a PhD! More pictures here
![IMG_5690 - Version 2](http://faculty.epss.ucla.edu/~cbeghein/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/IMG_5690-Version-2-1024x768.jpg)
![Caroline Beghein hooding Kaiqing Yuan](http://faculty.epss.ucla.edu/~cbeghein/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/IMG_5662-Version-2-1024x768.jpg)
UCLA graduate hooding ceremony
Dr. Kaiqing Yuan was hooded today! See more pictures here
![Caroline Beghein & Kaiqing Yuan at the hooding ceremony](http://faculty.epss.ucla.edu/~cbeghein/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/IMG_01461-1024x768.jpg)
We have a new doctor!
Kaiqing Yuan successfully defended his PhD thesis today! Congratulations and thank you for being part of the team and being the first student to get a PhD in our group!