Our annual wards luncheon was held on a beautiful spring day, April 24, 2008 at the Alumni house.
Over 150 students, faculty, and staff participated. After the luncheon catered by Myer's Prime, the following honors, recognitions, and awards were given to our students and faculty.

• Outstanding Faculty – Teaching: Professor Allen (Tony) Ekdale
  
• Outstanding Faculty – Research: Professor John Bowman
• Outstanding Teaching Assistant: Mark Loewen
• Outstanding M.S. Student: Winston Seiler
  
• Outstanding Ph.D. Student: Sam Hudson and Naomi Levin
  
• Outstanding Geology Student: Anita Brown
  
• Outstanding Geophysics Student: Paul Seal
• Outstanding Environmental Earth Science Student: Stan Smith
  
• Outstanding Geological Engineering Student: Elizabeth Hardwick
  
• Outstanding Earth Science Composite Teaching Student: Sean Connor

• Austin Weeks Foundation: Cameron Sheya 
• Earls Family Endowment: Elizabeth Hardwick, Kada Topham,  Michelle Cotton.
  
• Chevron Exploration: Chris Bradley
  
• Matt Mikulich: Kevin Jensen
• Bullock Keller: Jesse Moyes, Ted Balling, Courtney Neuffer.
  
• Eardly Award: Jared Singer. 
• Mineralogical Society of Utah: Richard Anderson, Katherine Clayton, Christian Gray, Iain Harvey, Joshua Kabat, Alex Moyes, Stefanie Whittaker.
  
• Ronald Terrill: Elizabeth Hardwick
  
• Norma Eardly Academic Career Advancement for Women: Rachel Shurdha and Brittany Dame.
  
• Orlo Childs Field Camp: Lindsley Tingey and Kristen Leigh Anderson.
• Dorothy Good: Jennifer Eutsler
• Sedimentary Honda: Elizabeth Barrett
  
• Geology and Geophysics Expendable: John Muir, April Rigby, Ashley Teare, Sean Conner, Danielle Fox, Arin Goe, Chanelle Meriwether, Stanley Smith, Margaret Thompson, Kada Topham.
  
• Kennecott Scholar: Cameron Fredrickson
• University Continuing and Department: Rebecca Gage, Nora Niminski, Stacy Rector.
• Susan Ekdale Field Camp: Alysen Pedersen
  
• AWG Scholar: Alysen Pedersen
• Dean's Office:  Christian Gray, Iain Harvey, Alex Moyes, Rachel Shurdha, Margaret Thompson.
• Dean's Alumni Office: Joshua Kabat.
• Cooper Hansen: Katherine  Clayton, Danielle Fox, Arin Goe, John Muir, Ashely Teare, Kada Topham Stefanie Whittaker,  April Rigby.
• Outstanding TA from Dean’s Office and Stokes Award: Daren Nelson
  
• Brown Rosenblatt: Adam Hiscock and Abbey Smith.
  
• Earl Johnson: Richard Johnson, Elizabeth Barrett, Ruthann Shurtleff.
  
• Frank and Pam Joklik: Luke Dow
  
• Thomas Parry Billings: Brittany Dame
  
• Experimental Station Team Leadership Award: Deanne Brandau
• Utah Geological Association: Stanley Smith and Courtney Neuffer. 
  
• Graduate School, U. Teaching Assistantship: Michelle Mary.
  
• WEST Fellows: Keith Christenson, Kit Clemons, Kiysla Skarko.