The George Brown Lecture Award, presented annually to an exceptional clay mineralogist in recognition of their research achievements, was bestowed upon Dr. Janice Bishop. Bishop is a senior research scientist at the SETI Institute and chair of its Science Council’s astrobiology group. The Clay Minerals Group (CMG) of the Mineralogical Society of the UK and Ireland honored Bishop at its award ceremony on July 24 at the Euroclay Conference in Bari, Italy.