February 1989
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Newsletter of the Mineralogical Society of America e Vol. 5, No.1, February 1989 MEMBERS NOMINATE OUTSTANDING STUDENTS IN MINERALOGY FOR SOCIETY'S UNDERGRADUATE AWARD MSA members have again taken advantage The deadline for nominating students for of the Society's American Mineralogist 1990 is December 1. Please mark your Undergraduate (AMU) Award program to calendars now so you can be watching for that recognize 15 outstanding students who have exceptional student. To nominate a student, shown an interest and ability in the discipline send a letter on departmental letterhead of mineralogy. Each student was cited by his giving the student's full name (for the or her department for outstanding certificate), departmental address, year in achievement in mineralogy-related courses. school, interest area, MSA sponsor name, The AMU Awards allow MSA to join with and the date and brief description of the individual professors to formally recognize award ceremony at which the certificate will outstanding students. Each student is be presented. The letter must be signed by presented a certificate at an awards ceremony the department chair. Send the letter to the at his or her university or college. In addition, MSA Business Office, 1625 I Street N.W., each recipient receives a complimentary Suite 414, Washington, D.C. 20006. student membership, including the journal, In its fifth year, the AMU Awards have for 1989. recognized 94 exceptional students in MSA members, who are on the permanent mineralogy programs throughout the U.S. (or tenure-track) faculty and whose and Canada. Many of these students have department offers one or more courses in maintained a relationship with MSA as crystallography, mineralogy, or petrology, current members or participants in its may nominate a student. One student may be educational short courses. nominated per department per year. The The Society welcomes these exceptional department must also be able to present the students to the program's honor roll and certificate during a departmental or wishes to thank the sponsors for enabling university award program. MSA encourages, MSA to recognize these outstanding but does not require, departments to individuals. nominate juniors who will be seniors during the year that they receive the award. Ms. Kate Edgar Ms. Kathleen Andrea Ward Mr. Leon Sawyko Western Michigan University Wellesley College Hamilton College Sponsored by Ron B. Chase and John D. Grace Sponsored by Timothy W. Grover andJames R. Sponsored by Dennis]. Geist Mr. Gabriel Viehweger Besancon Ms. Debi J. Farnsworth The University of Calgary Ms. Stephany Ann Fine SUNY Geneseo Sponsored by P. Bayliss West Georgia College Sponsored by Richard B. Hatheway Mr. Kurt Friehauf Sponsored by Curtis L. Hollabaugh Mr. Brian Backes Colorado State University Ms. Carrie Duncan Iowa State University Sponsored by M. E. McCallum The University of Manitoba Sponsored by Kenneth E. Windom Ms. Melissa Wilson Sponsored by P. Cerny and F. C. Hawthorne Ms. Lynn A. Oschmann Pomona College Mr. William Alexander Lumsden Bryn Mawr College Sponsored byJill S. Schneiderman North Carolina State University Sponsored by William A. Crawford Mr. David C. Noe Sponsored by]. Alexander Speer Mr. Colin Sumerall Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Ms. Jill Christine Roberts Arizona State University University University of Nevada, Las Vegas Sponsored by Peter R. Buseck Sponsored by F. Donald Bloss Sponsored by Anne F. Wyman FROM THE PRESIDENT Shortly after receiving the gavel from Dave rwo additional sessions, on Computer Stewart in Denver last fall, I was struck with Modeling of Crystal Structures and Mineral rwo immediate impressions of the Society Spectroscopy. By now all MSA members today. The first is that there is an impressively should have received detailed information The Lattice is published quarterly (February, May, August, November) by large number of members working in many about the Spring meeting directly from the Mineralogical Society of America. capacities to ensure that the Society's AGU. These sessions provide an excellent This newsletter is distributed to MSA programs always strive for highest quality and opportunity for the intellectual gaps berween members as a service. Articles and letters that they're carried out effectively. The mineralogists, mineral physicists, from readers are welcome. second is that those volunteers who have petrologists, and geophysicists to be proved The Mineralogical Society of America managed the Society's financial affairs have mythical. is composed of individuals interested in succeeded well; the Society presently has To foster more specialized communication mineralogy, crystallography, and financial strength to embark on important berween members with similar detailed petrology. Founded in 1919, the Society new initiatives. I want to highlight rwo new interests, the Council in 1988 discussed the promotes, through education and notion of specialized working groups being research, the understanding and activities here. application of mineralogy by industry, organized within MSA, somewhat analogous In response to Council's vote last October, universities, government and the public. a new MSA Lecture Program - announced to the Special Interest Groups of the Membership benefits include: the in the last issue of The Lattice - is being American Crystallographic Association and American Mineralogist, published organized. The objective is to provide the commissions and working groups of the bi-monthly; 30% discount on volumes in opportunities for students, particularly IMA. The Council agrees with the suggestion the Reviews in Mineralogy series; The undergraduates, to witness first hand the that the formal existence of such groups can Lattice; Membership Directory; special excitement of current research in catalyze better interaction, and it envisions subscription rates for Mineralogical mineralogy, crystallography, and petrology, that Society support for such groups might Abstracts, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, Journal of Petrology, and and to appreciate how such research relates involve sponsoring symposiums related to a Journal of Metamorphic Geology; group's special interests, providing clerical to the broad research goals of earth and reduced registration fees at MSA short planetary sciences. A specific goal of this support through our administrative office in courses; member rates for the program is to bring lectures on research at Washington, and publishing notices in The MSAlGeological Society of America the forefront of these fields to a wider Lattice regarding a group's activities. The annual meeting and for MSA's spring spectrum of earth science departments, Council voted unanimously to "recognize meeting with the American Geophysical including smaller ones, whose size or location and encourage the development of scientific Union; participation in a Society that or both tend to preclude ready access to such specialty working groups." We anticipate that supports the many facets of mineralogy. Dues for 1989 are $40 for professional activity. Our intention is to sponsor travel of the impetus for creating any specific group members; $20 for students. Membership rwo lecturers to a total of approximately eight will emerge spontaneously from a nucleus of is on a calendar year basis. Individuals members with a common interest; the to ten colleges or universities during the who join after January 1,1989 will be sent 1989-90 academic year. As this program is Council does not envision creating any such all back issues of the journal for volume just now evolving through an embryonic groups itself. At this time a few preliminary 74, 1989. state, many of you may not yet be aware that suggestions have been made, but no groups For additional membership information it exists. I urge members interested in having have been formed and no fixed and an application, and/or to receive a an MSA Lecturer visit their institution next organizational procedures have been devised. price list of the Society's publications, academic year to contact the Chairman of the I would very much like to hear from any contact the Business Office. Lecture Committee, Peter Buseck, at member or group of members who might Institutions may subscribe to the 1989 volume of the American Mineralogist for wish to pursue development of a scientific Arizona State University as soon as possible. the annual rate of $150. The subscription Materials inviting participation in this specialty working group. I look forward to price includes any new volumes of the program will be sent out later this spring. working with many members during the Reviews in Mineralogy series published Also announced in the last issue of The coming months toward successful during the calendar year of the Lattice was MSA's new association with the implementation of these new initiatives. And subscription. Payment must be received American Geophysical Union, under which, I hope to see many of you at the AGU Spring in full before a subscription will be similar to our association with GSA, we will Meeting in Baltimore. started. sponsor or co-sponsor sessions at AGU 1989 President: C.W. Burnham, Spring Meetings on subjects of mutual Harvard University interest to MSA and AGU members. Joe Past-President: D.B. Stewart, Smyth, University of Colorado, is MSA's U.S. Geological Survey representative to the AGU Program Secretary: Maryellen Cameron, Miami University of Ohio Committee, and he is organizing four Treasurer: James A. Whitney, University sessions for