Please join us in congratulating the following EPS concentrators for being awarded Hoopes Prizes to recognize their theses.

Quoting from the Hoopes Prize web site "the fund provides undergraduate prizes to be given for the purpose of "promoting, improving, and enhancing the quality of education . . . in literary, artistic, musical, scientific, historical, or other academic subjects made part of the College curriculum under Faculty supervision and instruction, particularly by recognizing, promoting, honoring, and rewarding excellence in the work of undergraduates and their capabilities and skills in any subject, projects of research in science or the humanities, or in specific written work of the students under the instruction or supervision of the Faculty."

Hannah Byrne for her submission entitled “An Experiment in Earthquake Control at Rangely, Colorado, Revisited: A Coupled Flow-Geomechanical Analysis of Induced Seismicity”

Barra Augusta Peak for her submission entitled “Glacial Isostatic Adjustment in Regions of Complex Earth Structure"

Catherine Ann Polik for her submission entitled “Impacts of Paleoecology on the TEX86 Paleotemperature Proxy"