M&M Onsite Awards

Onsite Awards

The M&M meeting's co-sponsoring societies confer competitively judged awards at the meeting.

MSA Student Poster Awards

We believe poster presentations are an excellent format for all participants to engage in intensive discussion with other researchers in the field. To especially encourage students to take advantage of this opportunity and submit papers for poster presentation, MSA provides cash awards* to the most outstanding student posters (first author) each day in several categories. *Cash awards are presented via ACH/wire transfer.

M&M 2026 Poster Awardees

Pranav Deep Punuru - Purdue University
The EMSuite Server for Automatic High-Accuracy Cryo-EM Modeling and Analysis
Anastasiia Gusach - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Changes in Single-Particle CryoEM Orientation Distributions upon Vitrification before Diffusion to the Air–Water Interface
William Millsaps - Stanford University
Implicit Neural Representation STEM Tomography with Physics-Based Modeling of Probe Defocus and Depth-of-Field
Yeon Ha Jo - Korea University
Atom Probe Analysis for Atomic Oxygen Induced Degradation in Low Earth Orbit Satellite Materials
Gusaimas Akbar - Institute for Material Science and Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
Electron Microscopy of Interfaces and Interphases in Laser-Processed Nb-V-Zr Refractory Multi-Principal Element Alloy
Jessica Thompson - Penn State
Plan-View FIB Method to Protect Sensitive Surface Layers in a Scalable Manner
Zach Moughamian - University of Missouri, St. Louis
Atomic Force Microscopy of Buried Oxide Layers in Silicon-On-Insulator Cross-Sections
Anna Sophia Kulenguski - Arizona State University School of Earth and Space Exploration
Sulfur Embedding for Ultramicrotomy
Jose Rafael Motilla Montes - Centro de Investigación en Materiales Avanzados
Electronic Properties of Gold-Decorated Silica Nanoparticles for their Application in Photothermal Therapy
Hari Adhikari - Northern Illinois University
Niobium Doping-Induced Texture Randomization for Strain Mitigation in Ni-Rich Cathodes
Perla Gómez Correa - Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Automatic Measurement and Detection of Microhardnesses in Non-Ferrous Alloys Using Computer Vision
Nicolas Puentes - University of Oregon
Bayesian Optimization of Interaction Free Measurement with Electrons
Jayden Grunde - National Laboratory of the Rockies, Colorado School of Mines
Toward Autonomous Materials Processing in the Plasma Focused Ion Beam
Michael Dushkoff - University of Oregon
PtychoPath: Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Accelerated Ptychographic Phase Reconstruction
Kang'an Wang - LBNL
In Situ TEM Observations of Strain-Driven Soliton Dynamics in Twisted Graphene
Shih-Chieh Lin - Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Real-Space Visualization of Periodic Lattice Displacements in Charge-Density-Wave LaTe?
Himani Mishra - Cornell University
Probing Hydrogen Ordering within Metal in 3D with Multislice Electron Ptychography
Kalana Halanayake - Penn State
Investigating the Atomic Structures of Low-Dimensional Tellurides
Justin Warner - Michigan Technological University
Quantifying Geometrically Necessary Dislocation Density in 316L Stainless Steel Fabricated Via Laser Powder Bed Fusion
Sahani Iddawela - Pennsylvania State University
Toward Autonomous Materials Processing in the Plasma Focused Ion Beam

MAS Best Paper Awards

MAS annually confers awards for papers presented at the M&M meeting deemed to be best in four categories. Each comes with a cash award generously provided by MAS Sustaining Members.

Diatome Poster Awards
(Awarded by Diatome)

All posters illustrating the use of diamond-knife ultramicrotomy are eligible. Prizes include cash and Swiss watches.