Drumroll Please! Meet Our New Goldstein Scholars
Congratulations to our new Goldstein Scholar Awardees: Alexander Kling and Xinxing Peng. Thank you also to sponsors Springer and the Meteoritical Society for making these awards possible!
We Have a New Goldstein Scholar!
MAS is pleased to announce that the Goldstein Scholar has been awarded to Dara Laczniak from Purdue University. Her project is titled ” Understanding Space Weathering of Carbon-Rich Asteroids Through In-Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy”.
Cast your vote for the Microscopy Today 2021 Micrograph Awards!
Voting is now open for the Microscopy Today 2021 Micrograph Awards! Cast your vote for the People’s Choice Award.
Congratulations to the 2021 Major Award Winners!
The Major Awards of the Society honor distinguished scientific contributions to the field of microscopy and microanalysis by technologists and by scientists at various career stages, as well as distinguished service to the Society. The honor will be conferred at the upcoming Microscopy & Microanalysis 2021 (M&M 2021) meeting.
Please congratulate this year’s awards winners!
PRESIDENTIAL SCIENCE AWARD
Hideyuki Takahashi
JEOL Ltd
PRESIDENTIAL SERVICE AWARD
John Fournelle
University of Wisconsin, Madison
PETER DUNCUMB AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN MICROANALYSIS
Yimei Zhu
Brookhaven National Laboratory
KURT F.J. HEINRICH AWARD
Katherine Burgess
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Congratulations to the 2020 M&M Scholar Award Winners!
Each year the MAS supports students to attend the Microscopy and Microanalysis annual meeting. The M&M scholar awards are conferred for outstanding papers contributed to the Microscopy & Microanalysis (M&M) meeting, which are competitively judged based upon the quality of the submitted paper.
Please find here the list of this year’s students and post-doctoral scholars and consider seeking out their presentations at the upcoming M&M conference.
Congratulations to Best Paper Award Winners!
Each years, MAS gives out awards for superior microanalysis papers presented at the previous year’s Microscopy and Microanalysis meeting, judged to be best in each of four categories. See who this year’s winners are.
Congratulations to the 2020 Major Award Winners!
The Major Awards of the Society honor distinguished scientific contributions to the field of microscopy and microanalysis by technologists and by scientists at various career stages, as well as distinguished service to the Society. The honor will be conferred at the Microscopy & Microanalysis 2020 (M&M 2020) meeting.
Congratulations to the Class of 2020 MAS Fellows!
The Microanalysis Society will induct three more members of the Society as the Class of 2020 MAS Fellows. The honor will be conferred at the Microscopy & Microanalysis 2020 (M&M 2020) meeting. Members of the Class of 2020 MAS Fellows are Christopher Kiely, Lothar Strüder, and Yimei Zhu.
The Royal Microscopical Society Awards Its Most Prestigious Honor to David B. Williams and C. Barry Carter!
The Royal Microscopical Society has unanimously voted to award two of our MAS Fellows, David B. Williams and C. Barry Carter, Honorary Fellowships. Since 1840, only 272 have been awarded to scholars from a variety of scientific disciplines worldwide. The luminaries include eight Nobel Prize winners — Joachim Frank, Stefan Hell and Sir Howard Florey among them — as well as 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Millie Dresselhaus.
Announcing the Fall 2019 Goldstein Scholarship Winners
The Microanalysis Society, Springer and the Meteoritical Society are pleased to announce the winners of the Fall 2019 round of winners of the Joseph Goldstein Scholarship. This scholarship, intended to promote career advancement for early career members of the Microanalysis Society, increase interactions of junior and established microanalysts, and to advance the state-of-the-art in microanalysis measurements. Up to $1000 is provided for attending a microscopy or microanalysis training course or to travel to another facility for measurements that enhance the Scholar’s skills or the state of microanalysis.
- Zachary Hasenbush from the University of Alabama
- Kenta Ohtaki from the University of Hawaii
- Olusegun Olisa from the University of Nigeria
Funding for Young Scholars – The Goldstein Scholars Program
Applications are now open for the fall 2019 round of the Joseph Goldstein Scholars sponsored by the MAS and the publisher Springer.
This on-going award is intended to promote career advancement for early career members of the Microanalysis Society, increase interactions of junior and established microanalysts, and to advance the state-of-the-art in microanalysis measurements. Activities eligible for the awards are: (1) travel costs for the Goldstein Scholar to visit a microanalysis facility to make measurements that advance the Goldstein Scholar’s skills and/or the state-of-the-art in microanalysis; (2) Travel costs/fees associated with attendance at a microanalysis school or training course, e.g., Lehigh Microscopy School, Hooke College of Applied Sciences, ASU, etc. Up to five awards of up to $1000 each will be granted each year, with applications reviewed twice yearly in conjunction with the Winter and Summer Council Meetings. All MAS members who are less than 5 years beyond their terminal degree, and who have not received a Goldstein Scholar award within the prior 5 years, are eligible to apply. A one-time renewal for current awardees who need to make a return visit for additional measurements will be considered, in cases where this will have a clear impact on the results obtained, e.g., equipment failure on the first visit.
Some testimonials from past winners:
George Burton, Colorado School of Mines
“The Goldstein Scholar award provided me the opportunity to travel abroad to for a month and a half research opportunity. During my time in Germany, I was able to collaborate with world-class researchers with access to cutting-edge electron microscopes not available to me at my home institution. This collaboration provided interactions and mentorship from a leader in electron holography while also enabling the advancement of my thesis project for a direct structure-property correlative study.”
Sean Collins, University of Cambridge, UK
“The unique access to these capabilities and training made possible through the award have given me the opportunity to undertake research on a challenging materials system, and the success around these first experiments now motivates me to launch an expanded research program on organic semiconductors through cutting edge electron microscopy in my future career.”
The deadline for applications is November 1, 2019, and the results will be announced on December 15, 2019.
More information can be found at https://the-mas.org/awards/goldstein-scholar/
2019 MAS Society Awards
The Microanalysis Society is proud to announced its award winners for 2019.
MAS Society Awards
Presidential Science Award – Lawrence Allard (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Presidential Service Award – Lucille Giannuzzi (EXpressLO LLC)
Peter Duncumb Award for Excellence in Microanalysis – David Seidman (Northwestern University)
Kurt FJ Heinrich Award – Miaofang Chi (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
2019 Best Paper Awards for papers presented at M&M 2018
Castaing – Best Student Paper
Ery Hughes (University of Bristol)
Analysis of Redox Changes in Silicate Glasses Using EPMA and Raman Spectroscopy (Paper 2022)
Macres – Best Instrumentation/Software Paper
Lewys Jones (Trinity College Dublin)
The MTF and DQE of Annular Dark Field STEM: Implications for Low-dose Imaging and Compressed Sensing (Paper 478)
Birks – Best Contributed Paper
Bradley De Gregorio (Naval Research Laboratory)
Low Energy STEM-EELS Characterization of Primitive Organic Matter and Silicates in the Meteorite LAP 02342 (Paper 2074)
Cosslett – Best Invited Paper
Jordan Hachtel (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Novel EELS Experiments in the Newly Opened Monochromatic Regime (Paper 418)
M&M Student Scholar Awards
Winning registration and travel support for M&M 2019
| Charles Fletcher | Oxford University | Fast Continuum Models for Atom Probe Simulation and Reconstruction |
| Brian Zutter | University of California, Los Angeles | Inducing Electrically-Active Defects in a Gallium Arsenide Nanowire with an Electron Beam |
| Kevin Schweinar | Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung |
An Integrated Workflow To Investigate Electrocatalytic Surfaces By Correlative X-ray Photoemission Spectroscopy, Scanning Photoemission Electron Microscopy and Atom Probe Tomography
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| Kousuke Ooe | University of Tokyo |
Light Element Imaging Technique at Low Dose Condition by Processing Simultaneously Obtained STEM Images Using a Segmented Detector
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| Berit Goodge | Cornell University | Harnessing Local Sample Variations to Generate Self-Consistent EELS References for Stoichiometry Quantification |
| Parivash Moradifar | Pennsylvania State University | Plasmonic Metalattices: A Correlated Monochromated Electron Energy Loss Study and Theoretical Calculations |
| Heena Inani | University of Vienna | Substitutional Si Doping of Graphene and Nanotubes through Ion Irradiation-Induced Vacancies |
| Yichao Zhang | University of Minnesota | Direct Imaging of Localized Anisotropic Acoustic-Phonon Dynamics in MoS2 |
| Komal Syed | University of California, Irvine | Analytical STEM/EDS Characterization of Elemental Segregation and Solid Solution Formation in Multiphase Ceramics |
| Meredith Sharps | University of Oregon | Nanoscale Analysis of Manganeous Oxide Rock Varnish on the Smithsonian Castle, Washington, DC |
| Yitian Zeng | Stanford University | Optimizing Nanostructure Size to Yield High Raman Signal Enhancement by Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy |
Recommend Excellent Papers for MAS Best Paper Awards
Dear M&M Attendee:
On behalf of the MAS Awards committee, let me first thank you for your participation in the upcoming annual meeting in Baltimore. Now allow me to ask for you assistance. Each year, MAS recognizes outstanding contributions by scientists at the M&M Meeting through four Outstanding Paper Awards. These are:
- The Castaing Award for Best Student Paper
- The Birks Award for Best Contributed Paper
- The Cosslett Award for Best Invited Paper
- The Macres Award for Best Instrumentation/Software Paper
With your help, the best papers presented this year in Baltimore can receive the recognition that they deserve. If you see a particularly excellent paper please tell us about it at the following link:
Your participation is vital to our selecting the very best papers at M&M each year, and we thank you for your valuable input. It would also be helpful if you could being this request to the attention of other attendees and may have additional suggestions for worthy candidates.
Thank you very much for your input,
Andrew A. Herzing, Ph.D.
MAS Awards Committee Chairman
E-mail: andrew.herzing@nist.gov