A fund was established in the Department of Earth, Atmosphere, and Planetary Sciences to perpetuate the memory of Prof. Christopher Goetze, an experimental geophysicist who died in 1977. Prof. Goetze was the Department's UROP Coordinator for six years. The undergraduate prize is for a research project in the general area of the solid earth sciences. Studies in departments other than Earth, Atmosphere, and Planetary Sciences qualify if the results are clearly applicable to earth science. Undergraduates who would like to be considered for a Goetze prize should submit a short report describing their research project to the headquarters office of the Department of Earth, Atmosphere, and Planetary Sciences by the first of May each year.
Work completed at any time during the current academic year is acceptable.
Student advisors may also wish to make nominations. May 1 of each calendar year Dean A. Horn Award Friends and colleagues of Dean Horn established this award in 1982 to honor and perpetuate Horn's contribution to the MIT Sea Grant Program and his spirit of service, creativity, pursuit of excellence, and tireless application to research. Don't be shy about asking your faculty supervisor to nominate you. This fund supports undergraduates doing research related to cyberspace. It is named in honor of Joseph C. R. Licklider, Professor of Electrical Engineering, whose research interests included work on making computers easy to use and developing graphical approaches to programming.