Prof. ERIK SPILLER, Research Professor in KIEM received the Richard's Award from AIME/SME at the 2009 annual meeting February 25, 2009. This is the most prestigious award given to Mineral Processing Professionals in the world. Mr. Spiller was given this award "for his outstanding accomplishment in the advancement of technology in comminution and physical separation, and for his leadership, guidance, and mentorship to inspire technical innovation." The Robert H. Richards Award, established in 1948, recognizes achievement in any form which unmistakably furthers the art of mineral beneficiation in any of its branches.

Prof. HONGJUN LIANG's work on porous carbon and carbon/metal oxide microfibers was featured by Chemical & Engineering News.

Prof. STEPHEN LIU received the Comfort A. Adams Lecture Award - American Welding Society. This award, the top research award of the American Welding Society, is given to an "outstanding scientist or engineer for a lecture describing a new or distinctive development in the field of welding". Dr. Liu's student, C. WILKINS won the third place Poster Award from the American Welding Society.

Prof. DAVID MATLOCK received the AIME Honorary Member Award, one of the highest honors that the Institute can bestow on an individual. Dr. Matlock's and JOHN SPEER'S student RYAN REGIER received the AIST Jerry Silver Award for Best Paper.

Prof. BRAJENDRA MISHRA received the 2010 Alexander Scott Distinguished Service Award from The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers (AIME).

Prof. JOHN MOORE received an Honorary Doctorate and a Godle Medal for outstanding research from the Moscow State Institute of Steels and Alloys. Dr. Moore also received the Educator Award from The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers (AIME).

Prof. RYAN O'HARE received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.

Prof. IVAR REIMANIS submitted the cover photograph for the Journal of the American Ceramic Society for February 2008.

Prof. NIGEL SAMMES had a patent awarded for "Electrode Supported Solid State Electrochemical Cell". This is the patent on extruded anode supported tubular solid oxide fuel cells.

Prof. CHET VAN TYNE was the Keynote Lecturer at the Asia-Pacific Conference on Engineering Plasticity and its applications in Daejeon, Korea. Dr. Van Tyne's student ERIK PAVLINA won Best Graduate Student Presentation at the NADDRG Spring 2008 Symposium; student DANIELLE VISSER won a DIERF Forging Achievement Award.

Prof. CORBY G. ANDERSON recieved the Milton E. Wadsworth Award in 2009. In recognition of his notable contributions in hydrometallurgical research and his role as Director of Center for Advance Mineral and Metallurgical Processing (CAMP).