Planetary scientist Lindy Elkins-Tanton to head Space Sciences Laboratory
Lindy Elkins-Tanton, a geologist and planetary scientist, will be the new director of UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory, effective July 1. She currently leads the NASA Psyche mission to explore an asteroid called Psyche.
LOOK: SSL Cal Day table inspires out-of-this-world selfies
Our amazing undergraduate interns staffed SSL’s table at Cal Day on Saturday, April 19th. They talked up SSL’s undergraduate opportunities with admitted students and parents who posed for selfies with our out-of-this-world photo accessories. If visitors could point out a specific instrument on our ESCAPADE Lego model, they’d win an ESCAPADE sticker and Pegasus rocket […]
New SSL Undergraduate Engagement Group and Recent Activities/Achievements
New SSL Undergraduate Engagement Group and Recent Activities/Achievements — “The University’s fundamental missions are teaching, research and public service” (source: UCOP). Although SSL excels at research, and through those discoveries, public service to a large degree, SSL’s role in and greater potential for contributing to the mission of teaching has been somewhat underappreciated on campus […]
Applications for Lin Fellowship now open
As usual, we will be accepting applications for the Lin Fellowship this year. This is an opportunity for UCB grad students (including incoming students) to work on SSL projects over the summer. The fellowship provides student salary support. More information can be found on the Lin Fellowship page and on this flyer. Please pass this information […]
