Associate Professor Lynda Williams was profiled in the newest edition of the magazine Phoenix Woman. The article discusses Williams' science career path and her current research: mud.

Professor Phil Christensen discusses the Mars Lander on Channel 12 news. Please visit the web site below for the story and video.

TIME's list of 2008's top innovations includes the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Professor Mark Robin has led the development and construction of one of the key instruments integrated on the LRO spacecraft, the wide-angle camera.

On Thursday, November 13, 2009 at exactly 10 am PST, a simulated magnitude 7.8 earthquake will occur along the San Andreas Fault in Southern California. An earthquake preparedness drill with over 5 million registered participants will allow the numerous agencies in charge of safety and infrastructure, as well as the general public to get a sense of what could happen if a real event like this occurred. The event is called the Great California Shakeout (http://www.shakeout.org/).

Throughout history, the changing fortunes of human societies in Asia have been linked to variations in the precipitation resulting from seasonal monsoons. A new paper published in the British journal Nature Geoscience suggests that variations in monsoon climate over longer time scales also influenced the evolution of the world's highest mountain chain, the Himalaya.