Congratulations to Allison and Devika on receiving the Alfred J. and Ruth Zeits Endowed Fellowship from the MSU College of Natural Science!

Congratulations to Allison Pease on leading this work, which will be part of her dissertation!

Journal pre-proof at Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors: Strength, plasticity, and spin transition of Fe-N alloys in planetary cores – ScienceDirect

Congratulations to Dr. Mingda Lv, first author of this work!

Paper-in-press is available at American Mineralogist: https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2024-9410

I packed up my mugs and samples and tools and said goodbye to the Extreme Conditions Lab at IES. What a privilege to spend this year welcomed into this happy and productive research group! Big thanks to Wen-Pin Hsieh et al. Returning soon to MSU.

Open access: High Sodium Solubility in Magnesiowüstite in Iron‐Rich Deep Lower Mantle – Dorfman – 2024 – Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems – Wiley Online Library

Great job Allison, Luisa, and Devika for your outreach at the MSU Science Festival, which made an impact on hundreds of members of the public!

Last week, Allison Pease and Luisa Chavarría attended the winter workshop at FORCE, Arizona State University. They presented posters on “Thermal Equation of State of Transition-Metal-Bearing Davemaoite and Implications for Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces (LLSVPs)” and “Role Of Iron Concentration In The Incorporation Of Sodium Into Ferropericlase In The Earth’s Lower Mantle.” They brought home both of the two student poster awards (sponsored by Corning)! Well done!

Allison Pease, Luisa Chavarria, and Jack Piper (and honorary group member Heidi Krauss) presented 3 posters at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union!

Thank you to Wen-Pin Hsieh for hosting my sabbatical visit to the Institute of Earth Sciences at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, starting Fall semester 2023!

Devika Padmakumar has joined our lab as a new Ph.D. student! Devika earned her B.S. and M.S. from the University of Kerala. Welcome!