At a May 10 reception held in the CNSI Auditorium, Earth & Space Sciences’ Hilke Schlichting was awarded the 2012 Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research (opens in a new tab) at UCLA. This award honors important postdoctoral contributions to the university’s interrelated missions of research, teaching, and public service.
Hilke is a theoretical astrophysicist interested in the formation of planetary systems and has been a Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA since 2010.