Congratulations to Ross Anderson who is the recipient of a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship in Planetary Science.

Ross Anderson, a second year graduate student in Derek Briggs’ lab, has received a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship for his proposal: “The rise of eukaryotes: Environmental controls during the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian transition”. The fellowship, worth $30,000 per year, is awarded by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate Planetary Science Division with a purpose to “ensure the continued training of a highly qualified workforce in disciplines needed to achieve NASA’s scientific goals”. It is highly competitive and selection is a “real mark of distinction” – only 31 awards were made this year.