Recently, on the 34thInternational Conference onOrganic Petrology held in Calgary, Canada, the 2017 Dal Swaine Award was presented to Prof. Dai Shifeng from CUMTB,Prof. Ian Graham and Prof. Colin Ward from University of New South Wales in Australia for their co-research on rare earth elements in coals, with the findings published in a paper titled “A Review of Anomalous Rare Earth Elements and Yttrium in Coal.