Sara Seager was featured on a PBS television documentary, "Big Ideas," about the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. (See http://www.thirteen.org/bigideas/ , and http://www.thirteen.org/bigideas/seager.html for part of her interview).

"CIW 1 of 12 teams selected to join the NASA Astrobiology Institute", June 24, 2003

Alan Boss was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in May and will be inducted in October.

Paul Butler was one of five winners of the Discover magazine Award for Innovation in Science and Technology for his work identifying extrasolar planets. A profile was published in the November issue of Discover.

Rick Carlson was elected a Fellow of both the American Geophysical Union and the Geochemical Society.

David James was selected as an IRIS/Seismological Society of America Distinguished Lecturer for 2003-04.

Vera Rubin has been awarded the 2003 Catherine Wolfe Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. She will receive the prize in a ceremony in October.

Shown (from left below) are Amigo Wang (drilling contractor), Chi-Ching Liu (Academia Sinica), DTM's Selwyn Sacks, Nelson McWhorter, Michael Acierno, Brian Schleigh, and Alan Linde, and Min Lee (Taiwan Geological Survey). They are shown at the site of a strainmeter installed in August at Chi Mei, Taiwan, standing in front of the drilling rig with part of the strainmeter (a stainless steel cylinder with cable attached) visible in front of Min Lee. A second installation will be completed in early 2003, as part of a program planned in collaboration with the Academia Sinica to investigate tectonics near the eastern coast of Taiwan. The whole of Taiwan is tectonically active, and it is likely that the program will be enlarged to cover a greater area.

Shown (from left above) are DTM's Alan Linde, Pascal Bernard (IGGP, Paris), Brian Schleigh, Nelson McWhorter, a local driller, and Selwyn Sacks, behind a hole for a strainmeter they installed in June on the island of Trizonia in the Gulf of Corinth. The installation is part of a large program to investigate the tectonics of the area, which is undergoing rapid extension and is seismically active.