The International Precious Metals Institute® awarded the 2015 Jun-ichiro Tanaka Distinguished Achievement Award to Corby Anderson, Harrison Western Professor at Mines. The IPMI Jun-ichiro Tanaka Distinguished Achievement Award recognizes important career contributions to the advancement of the precious metals industry, be it technological, commercial, economic or management.

Physics Professor Mark Lusk has been invited to deliver a lecture on silicon nanostructures at the Fall Meeting of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS), Sept. 15-18 at the Warsaw University of Technology in Poland. Lusk's lecture is titled "Carrier Collection and Transport in Thin Film Silicon with Tailored Nanocrystalline/Amorphous Structure: Computational Design and Experimental Realization." It will focus on a new computational method developed by Lusk and his group for quantifying the way electrons interact with material vibrations.

Professor Andrew Herring (CBE) has been selected as the Division of Energy and Fuels American Chemical Society winner of the 2015 ENFL Distinguished Service award. The award recognizes significant and continued impact on the advancement of energy and fuels chemistry through research, teaching, service or a combination of the three over an extended period of time.