Graduate student Wenrui Jiang cleared an important hurdle recently on his way to his PhD. Wenrui presented his thesis research proposal in his Graduate Board Oral (GBO) exam. The thesis proposal title is “Multiscale Lagrangian description of tracer dynamics and energy dissipation”. The GBO involved faculty from Earth & Planetary Sciences, Mechanical Engineering, and Applied Math & Statistics. Wenrui passed and is now officially a PhD candidate!