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GSSM Alumna Receives 2008 Subaru Outstanding Woman in Science Award, Donates Monetary Award to GSSM
November 14, 2008
The Geological Society of America (GSA) recently awarded Lorraine Hertzog Lisiecki the 2008 Subaru Outstanding Woman in Science Award.
A 1995 graduate of the South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics (GSSM), Lisiecki is currently an assistant professor in the Earth Science department at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
She received a $2,500 prize that she in turn donated to GSSM, specifically for science curriculum and scholarships for female students.
"Lorraine's unique combination of scientific skills, combined with her drive and single-minded dedication to her long-term scientific goals, has resulted in one of the best, most interesting, and most influential doctoral theses I have ever seen," said Maureen E. Raymo, research professor at Columbia University who served as a mentor to Lisiecki.
In partnership with Subaru and in memory of Doris M. Curtis, GSA makes an annual Outstanding Woman in Science Award as a means to encourage women in the geosciences. The Woman in Science Award is awarded to a woman who has impacted the field of the geosciences in a major way based on their Ph.D. research. Women are eligible for the first three years following her degree.
Doris Curtis was GSA's 103rd president. Her popularity was widespread and she pioneered many new directions for geology, not the least of which was her tenure as GSA president after an unbroken chain of 102 men. Causes dear to Curtis were women, public awareness, minorities and education.
For more information on the South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics, please contact Jacqulyne Pouncey at the GSSM Foundation.
