Priscilla Grew, State Geologist of Minnesota from 1986 to 1993, is the 2022 winner of the GSA President’s Medal. The award is conferred on those whose impact has profoundly enhanced the geoscience profession. Priscilla was born in Glens Falls, New York, attended Bryn Mawr, earned her doctorate in geology from Berkeley in 1967, and joined the Boston College faculty. Her early research was on blueschists and eclogites in California. She later became an assistant research geologist at UCLA, and in 1977, director of the California Department of Conservation, which included the State Geological Survey and the oil and gas agency. In 1981, she was appointed to the California Public Utilities Commission. She became director of the Minnesota Geological Survey and University of Minnesota Professor in 1986. From 1993 to 1999, she was vice chancellor for research at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and after then being faculty for a while, from 2003 to 2015, she was Director of the Nebraska Natural History Museum. Her service has been extensive, and she now is on the Finance Committee of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics. Congratulations, Priscilla!
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