Tony Lamantia, a senior pursuing a double major in Geoscience and Computer Science, is the recipient of the 2026 Kurt Eisen Excellence in Liberal Arts Award. This is the highest student award given by the College of Arts and Sciences. In her award nomination letter, Dr. Jeannette Luna wrote that Tony, “is an exceptional student with a bright future as a creative thinker at the intersections of geoscience, geospatial analysis, remote sensing, and computer science.” Tony is recognized for completing a detailed geologic map of a lunar landing site, designing a project and leading a small team to map more than 90,000 boulders around the lunar south pole, and participating in a geospatial project mapping invasive rhododendron on the Isle of Raasay, Scotland. His work will result in two publications on which he is lead author.