We will soon be making decisions on the lecture circuits for the 2024-25 MSA Distinguished Lecturers. If you are interested in hosting a lecturer, read below for details on how to request one for your institution. It's easy and a great way to connect your students with the MSA! *MSA Distinguished Lecturers for 2024-2025:* *Aaron Celestian* Natural History Museum of Los Angeles who will offer the Peter Buseck New Developments in Mineralogy and Petrology Lectures on *Prospering Backyards: a collaboration of art, science, and community* and *Controlling ion migration in lithium manganese oxide* ------------------------------ *Molly McCanta* Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee who will offer lectures on *What goes down must come up: Changing oxidation conditions in the Santorini magmatic system as a tracer of subduction components through time* and *Earth’s deadly twin: Using alteration experiments to inform on surface processes, geologic age, and planetary evolution on Venus* ------------------------------ *Julia Semprich* School of Environment, Earth & Ecosystem Science, The Open University, UK who will offer the Peter Buseck Public Lectures on *Surfing through the clouds: Unravelling Venus’s secrets* and *A peek inside: What the venusian surface can tell us about its interior composition* ------------------------------ *Instructions to request an MSA Distinguished Lecturer* The Mineralogical Society of America is pleased to announce the slate of Distinguished Lecturers for the 2024-2025 academic year. It is designed to run from September 2024 through May 2025. Requests received before September 1, 2024, will be given priority. Late applications are welcome but will be considered on an as-available basis. In making your request please include: 1. the name of a contact person at your institution for the months of August and September (when Lecturer schedules will be assembled), with contact e-mail addresses and phone numbers; 2. the start and end dates of your institution's academic semesters for 2024-2025; 3. what day of the week you typically have department seminars, if applicable; please note that because of travel and schedule constraints it is often not possible to satisfy requests for tightly constrained dates or specific seminar days. Having some flexibility in your seminar day is helpful for hosting a speaker; 4. list the three speakers in order of preference; 5. list the closest airport to your institution, and the travel time to your institution; If your institution is interested in requesting the visit of an MSA Distinguished Lecturer for 2024-2025, please contact the Lecture Program Administrator by e-mail at paul.tomascak@oswego.edu. -- Professor Paul Tomascak (he/him/his) Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts & Sci. SUNY Oswego rm. 601c Culkin Hall Oswego NY 13126 tel: 315.312.2285