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People in the News: Roycroft new Curator of Geology

By Elements | April, 2022

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Dr Patrick Roycroft is the new Curator of Geology at the National Museum of Ireland

People in the News: Rieder Retires

By | August, 2021

Milan Rieder is one of those tireless heroes of the publishing world. Since 1977, Milan has been Editor of Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, published by Springer Nature, and now, in 2021, he has finally decided to retire.

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People in the News: Dingwell Elected

By | April, 2021

Award winners: Mark Welch, Steve Hillier, Clare Warren

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People in the News

By | August, 2020

Award winners: Mark Welch, Steve Hillier, Clare Warren

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New Mineral Named in Honor of Barbara Dutrow

By | April, 2020

Professor Barbara L. Dutrow is the Gerald Cire and Lena Grand Williams Alumni Professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Louisiana State University (USA) and she has been honored by having a newly discovered mineral species of the tourmaline group named after her: dutrowite.

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v15n4 People in the News

By | July, 2019

Professor Donald Bruce Dingwell, Director of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Munich (Germany), has been awarded the Volcanology and Igneous Petrology (VIP) Career Achievement Award from the Geological Association of Canada (GAC) for his lifelong contributions to volcanology and igneous petrology.

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v14n6 People in the News

By | December, 2018

AGU 2018 Fellows, ACA Buerger Award to Frank Hawthorne, and Geological Society of America 2018 Medal Awards

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v14n3 People in the News

By | June, 2018

Barbara L. Dutrow, Adolphe G. Gueymard Professor of Geology at the Louisiana State University (USA), was elected to the Board of Governors of the Gemological Institute of America (GIA). Frank C. Hawthorne, Distinguished Professor at the University of Manitoba (Canada) was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada on 29 December 2017.

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Burns, Grew, and Hazen Elected as Foreign Honorary Members of the Russian Mineralogical Society

By | February, 2018

At its 200th Anniversary Meeting in St. Petersburg (Russia), held 10–13 October 2017, the Russian Mineralogical Society elected Peter C. Burns, Henry Massman Professor at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA); Edward S. Grew, Research Professor at the University of Maine (USA); and Robert M. Hazen, Senior Staff Scientist of the Geophysical Laboratory (Washington D.C., USA) and Executive Director of the Deep Carbon Observatory, as Foreign Honorary Members of the society.

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IMA 2016 Mineral of the Year: Merelaniite

By | October, 2017

The International Mineralogical Association is pleased to announce that the Mineral of the Year award for 2016 goes to merelaniite. This mineral was discovered in collector specimens from the Merelani region in northeastern Tanzania, and investigated by John A. Jaszczak (Michigan Technological University, Houghton, USA), Michael S. Rumsey (Natural History Museum, London, UK), Luca Bindi (Università di Firenze, Florence, Italy), Stephen A. Hackney (Michigan Technological University), Michael A. Wise (National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA), Chris J. Stanley (Natural History Museum, London), and John Spratt (Natural History Museum, London).

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Demouchy receives EMU Research Excellence Medal

By | October, 2017

The 2016 EMU Research Excellence Medal has been awarded to Sylvie Demouchy of CNRS, Geosciences Montpellier (France) for her scientific leadership in experimental geochemistry and mineral physics, her scientific breadth, and her extensive service to the academic community.

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