{"id":11951,"date":"2025-05-15T09:19:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T13:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.umaine.edu\/earthclimate\/?p=11951"},"modified":"2025-11-24T13:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:12:10","slug":"mineralogical-society-awards-honorary-fellowship-to-edward-grew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/earthclimate\/2025\/05\/15\/mineralogical-society-awards-honorary-fellowship-to-edward-grew\/","title":{"rendered":"Mineralogical Society Awards Honorary Fellowship to Edward Grew"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Society of the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland has awarded Honorary Fellowship to Edward Grew, a University of Maine research professor. Following Grew\u2019s election, the Society currently has 13 Honorary Fellows, of which 6 are resident in the U.S.  (Honorary Fellows must be resident outside the British Isles at the time of election.) Grew is the first Mineralogical Society Honorary Fellow to be elected from the U.S. since the late Stanford professor Rodney Ewing (1946-2024) was elected in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2015 Grew was awarded the Mineralogical Society\u2019s prestigious Collins Medal for \u201cscientific excellence in mineralogy.\u201d  Grew has served as an Associate Editor of the Society\u2019s prominent professional journal Mineralogical Magazine since 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mineralogical Society President Sally Gibson, Professor of Petrology & Geochemistry at the University of Cambridge in the UK, made the Honorary Fellowship presentation on 21 August 2024 at a dinner in the Hotel Conrad in Dublin, Ireland, during the 4th<\/sup> European Mineralogical Conference held August 19-23 at Trinity College, Dublin. The Conference included a special two-day session in Grew\u2019s honor: \u201cThe Testimony of the Minerals: A Celebration of Edward S. Grew at 80.\u201d The session co-conveners were Robert Hazen (Carnegie Science, Washington, D.C.), Barbara Dutrow (Louisiana State University), Gerhard Franz (Technische Universit\u00e4t Berlin) and Jesse Walters (University of Graz, Austria). Walters received his PhD from the U Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences in 2020 when he was honored as the Edith M. Patch Outstanding Ph.D. Student in the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture.  Grew was a member of the faculty committee for Walters\u2019 doctoral thesis. Walters received a Fulbright Fellowship and a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Goethe Universit\u00e4t in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due to health issues, Grew was unable to travel to Ireland to receive his award. His wife Priscilla Grew presented his talk in the technical session in his honor, and she read his response to Prof. Gibson\u2019s citation at the award ceremony. Fortunately, the Conference was hybrid, so Grew was able to watch his session and the award presentation via Zoom. Priscilla is Professor Emerita in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his acceptance remarks, Grew recalled that two former Mineralogical Society Honorary Fellows played a crucial role in his professional development. Professor James B. Thompson, Jr. was Grew\u2019s PhD thesis advisor at Harvard University. Grew was the Teaching Assistant in 1970 for \u201cJBT\u2019s\u201d famous course on Phase Equilibria. Grew recalled that \u201cProfessor Thompson\u2019s application of thermodynamics in petrology was as inspiring as it was challenging \u2013 it has shaped my approach to metamorphic petrology for my entire career.\u201d Honorary Fellow Professor Werner Schreyer was Grew\u2019s mentor during his Humboldt Fellowship at the Universit\u00e4t Bochum 1983-1985. Schreyer emphasized how mineral assemblages in a rock with a simple bulk composition can provide valuable petrological insight, especially if this bulk composition can be modelled experimentally. Grew has participated in the discovery and confirmation of 29 new minerals approved by the Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) of the International Mineralogical Association.  Attending the Dublin conference and participating in Grew\u2019s birthday session were Irina Galuskina and Evgeny Galuskin from the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. The Galuskins discovered and named Edward and Priscilla Grew\u2019s \u201chis and her\u201d new minerals that were approved by CNMNC. The new minerals edgrewite Ca9<\/sub>(SiO4<\/sub>)4<\/sub>F2<\/sub> – hydroxyledgrewite Ca9<\/sub>(SiO4<\/sub>)4<\/sub>(OH)2<\/sub>, approved in 2011, are a series of calcium humite-group minerals discovered in altered xenoliths in the ignimbrite of Upper Chegem caldera, Northern Caucasus, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia.  Priscillagrewite-(Y), (Ca2<\/sub>Y)Zr2<\/sub>Al3<\/sub>O12<\/sub> approved in 2020, is a new garnet of the bitikleite group discovered in the Daba-Siwaqa area in the Hatrurim Complex, Jordan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Keynote talk by Robert Hazen honoring Edward Grew at Trinity College, Dublin on 19 August 2024. Photos courtesy Priscilla Grew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Edward Grew\u2019s wife Priscilla Grew accepts his award from Mineralogical Society President Sally Gibson (University of Cambridge) on 21 August. Photo courtesy Priscilla Grew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Society of the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland has awarded Honorary Fellowship to Edward Grew, a University of Maine research professor. Following Grew\u2019s election, the Society currently has 13 Honorary Fellows, of which 6 are resident in the U.S.  (Honorary Fellows must be resident outside the British Isles at the time of election.) Grew is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"Uncategorized"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mistyjohnson","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/earthclimate\/author\/mistyjohnson\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"Uncategorized","slug":"uncategorized","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":12,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":12,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Uncategorized","category_nicename":"uncategorized","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/earthclimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/earthclimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/earthclimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/earthclimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/earthclimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/earthclimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11954,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/earthclimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11951\/revisions\/11954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/earthclimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/earthclimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/earthclimate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}