Education
Squyres was raised in the town of Wenonah in southern New Jersey.
Squyres attended Gateway Regional High School in Woodbury Heights, New Jersey. He received his B.A. in Geological Sciences from Cornell University in 1978 and his Ph.D. in Astronomy (Planetary Studies) from the same institution in 1981, where he worked closely with Carl Sagan. Squyres then spent five years as a postdoctoral associate and research scientist at NASA Ames Research Center before returning to Cornell as a faculty member. He received the H. C. Urey Prize from the Planetary Division of the American Astronomical Society in 1987. In 2007, he was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth and Environmental Science by the Franklin Institute. He is also a member of the college fraternity Tau Kappa Epsilon (TKE).
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