During the MS&T Conference on October 5, 2015, MSE Professor Mysore Dayananda received the 2015 ASM-IIM Visiting Lectureship Award. This award provides an honorarium for travel within India  for presenting lectures. This program established in 1979 between ASM and the Indian Institute of Materials (IIM) is intended to promote international cooperation and provide a useful service to ASM members.  In this context,  he is currently scheduled  to present a lecture entitled ““Selected Phenomena in Multicomponent Diffusion” at the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, India on December 28, 2015. The lecture is sponsored by IIT-Kanpur and the Kanpur Chapter of IIM.