Recent graduate Junjie Dong won multiple 2023 AGU awards, including the Mineral and Rock Physics Graduate Research Award and the Study of Earth's Deep Interior Graduate Research Award. The Mineral and Rock Physics Graduate Research Award recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of mineral and rock physics achieved during the honoree's Ph.D. research. The Study of Earth's Deep Interior Graduate Research Award is presented annually to one or two graduate student honorees. Students are honored for their notable contributions, including advances in the understanding of the deep interior of the Earth or other planetary bodies using a broad range of observational, experimental, or theoretical approaches.

JJ has now transitioned to serving as a Stanback Postdoctoral Scholar in Comparative Planetary Evolution at the California Institute of Technology. Congratulations JJ!