Dr. Courtney Young has been and continues to be extremely active in several professional organizations, particularly SME, TMS and AEMA. As an author and speaker, he has over 150 publications and presentations; as a short course instructor, he has taught a one-day short course on Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy ten times and five-day short course on Fire Assay twenty times; as an organizer, he has arranged over thirty sessions and ten symposia; and, as an officer, he has served as Trustee for AEMA, MPD Chair for SME, EPD Council member for TMS, and numerous award committees. For Montana Tech, aside from Department Head, he has served on Undergraduate Research Committee, Faculty Senate, Recruiting and Retention Committee, and Library Committee. In addition, he played a major role helping establish the Center for Advanced Mineral, Metal and Materials Processing (CAMP), the Undergraduate Research Program, the Center for Advanced Supramolecular and Nano Systems (CASANS), and most recently the Materials Science (MatSci) PhD Program. He has been accordingly recognized for his efforts including eight plenary lectures, the Young Engineer Award from the MPD/SME, Frank F. Aplan Award from AIME, two President’s Citation from SME, two Teacher of the Year Awards from Montana Tech, and two Research Awards from Montana Tech including Distinguished Research Award. Finally, Dr. Young has a patent on research for developing a novel carbon adsorption process for recovering gold from thiosulfate solutions, a non-cyanide technology that has potential to make thiosulfate leaching cost-effective compared to cyanide leaching. He has three other technologies in the patenting process.