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Geoscience Outstanding Graduate for 2008-2009
Nicole A. Schoolmeesters B.S. in Geoscience: geology option, and minors in Business Administration and Music
- During her time at WSU Ms. Schoolmeesters served the Geoscience department as a T. A. in the Dynamic Earth, Astronomy, Minerals and Rocks, Field Methods, Structural Geology, and Applied Hydrology classes.
- She also served the department by working for the Academic Assistance Center as a supplemental instructor for Dynamic Earth for two semesters.
- Between her sophomore and junior years, she was accepted to a National Science Foundation funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program at Mesa State College in western Colorado. She presented her research on Laramide-age folding at the 2007 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Denver.
- During her last year at WSU she researched the deformation in basement gneisses in the Black Hills uplift. She presented this research at the WSU student celebration in April 2009, and at the Rocky Mountain Section Meeting of the Geological Society of America in Orem, Utah in May 2009.
- Ms. Schoolmeesters graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in Geoscience: geology option, and minors in Business Administration and Music.
- She was accepted to the graduate program at the University of Wyoming where she will study either igneous processes along the Mid-Atlantic ridge, or granite-emplacement processes in the Klamath Mountains in Northern California. Ms. Schoolmeesters starts in Wyoming in August 2009.
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