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The inauguration of our spring season of the earth science colloquium series is still two weeks off, but please save that time slot next week for our annual awards recognition ceremony, at which we will acknowledge all of our colleagues who received research and education awards between october 20 and december 2014. Finalists for two significant literary awards, the man booker prize for fiction and the national book awards, were announced this week. An elite few have won the award more than once, including bellow, faulkner, and updike and 2017s winner jesmyn ward who won her first national book award in 2011. Stfx student lynsay spafford wins outstanding student paper award. Sep 16, 2015 cnnbookworms around the world, check your reading lists. Agu meetings foster learning and collaboration, and promote topics that enhance perspectives across earth and space science.
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