Main organizer of department seminars until Fall 2012. Starting Fall 2012, co-organizer with Deric Learman.
Two distinguished lecturers were brought at no cost to EAS: The Mineralogical Society of America and the Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences (COMPRES) in 2011-2012. About 5 seminars per semester were given in 2011-2012, and 3 per semester in 2012-2013.