UWAB alum Aomawa Shields (Astronomy and Astrobiology, 2014) has been awarded the 2016 ASU Origins Project Postdoctoral Lectureship Award! This prestigious $10,000 award is offered to young scientists based on scholarly achievement and skills in science communication. Shields, who has a professional acting background in addition to her rigorous training as a scientist, will be resident at Arizona State University for a week and will offer a series of departmental colloquia and a large public lecture in early April. Congratulations Aomawa!