Crupa Awarded HGS Undergraduate Fellowship
Double Major in Geology and Geophysics Plans to Pursue M.S.
Wanda Crupa, a junior double majoring in geology and geophysics with a minor in mathematics,
received a Houston Geological Society (HGS) Undergraduate Fellowship. She is the only
recipient from the É«»¨ÌÃ.
Crupa is working on an undergraduate research project applying ground penetrating
radar mapping to units of the Eagle Ford Formation in central Texas. This study is
supervised by Shuhab Khan, a professor of geology in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric
Sciences (EAS). Crupa has made the Dean’s List each semester at É«»¨Ìà and was awarded
the EAS department’s Outstanding Sophomore Award. Her goal is to attend graduate school
and obtain a master’s degree in geophysics or petroleum engineering.
HGS provided $16,000 in fellowships to top performing students in the Texas region this year.Other fellowship awards went to students at Rice University, Lamar University, Texas A&M University, University of Texas at Austin and Sam Houston State University.