Sketch of Honors

2001-2002
2002 Outstanding Faculty Award recipient by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV)
1997-1998 Plenary Speaker at International Mineralogical Society meeting held in Toronto, Canada, August
1996-1997
Keynote speaker at University of Memphis College of Education Symposium "Unity in Science,"
1995-1996
Citationist for Society of Economic Geologists' awarding of R.A.F. Penrose Gold Medal to Paul B. Barton, Jr.
1994-1995
Invited to serve as instructor in special short course on "Ore Microscopy" in Buenos Aires for the International Mineralogical Society
Invited C.F. Davidson Memorial Lecture, University of St. Andrews, Scotland