Former EPS graduate student Dr. Xinting Yu has been awarded the Harold C. Urey prize for outstanding achievements in planetary science by an early-career scientist. The Urey prize is awarded by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) Division for Planetary Sciences. Xinting was a member of Prof. Sarah Horst’s lab as a graduate student in EPS. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of San Antonio.

To learn more about Xinting’s achievements, read the announcement from AAS: https://dps.aas.org/primary_page_tags/prizes/