Each year, the Microscopy Society of America (MSA) and the Microanalysis Society (MAS) offer several awards for outstanding sustained contributions to our imaging and analysis community. In this issue of Microscopy Today, we recognize the 2020 MSA Awardees including Distinguished Scientists David Seidman and Xiaowei Zhuang, Burton awardees James Lebeau and Brent Nannenga, Albert Crewe awardee Andrew Yankovich, Hildegard H. Crowley awardee Joseph Mowery, Chuck Fiori awardee Lijun Wu, Mort Maser Distinguished Service awardee John Shields, and Fellows Elizabeth Dickey, Ian Anderson, J. Bernard Heymann, and Masashi Watanabe. In the July issue we will provide recognition of the 2020 MAS awardees, including Peter Duncumb awardee Nestor Zaluzec, Presidential Science awardee Gianluigi Botton, Presidential Service awardee Edward Vicenzi, KFJ Heinrich awardee Lena Kourkoutis, and Fellows Christopher Kiely, Lothar Strüder, and Yimei Zhu. The Microscopy Today staff congratulates all for their exceptional contributions to science and service to their Society.
Guidelines for the MSA awards can be found at Awards & Scholarships – Society Awards | Microscopy Society of America and MAS awards at Awards – Microanalysis Society (the-mas.org). As deadlines for the awards vary, please check the websites closely, and please consider nominating a worthy colleague so that they can receive recognition from their peers and the imaging and analysis community.
MSA and MAS also provide several Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Awards and Professional Technical Staff Awards (PTSA) that cover meeting registration and $1000 toward travel, lodging, and other M&M meeting costs. In addition to meeting support, these awards include recognition at the Plenary Session on the first day of the meeting. Scholar and PTSA awards require submission of an outstanding two-page paper for the meeting proceedings and a platform or poster presentation of the work at the meeting. Several “In-meeting” awards are also given each year. These include Student Poster Awards that provide cash prizes, and the prestigious Ultramicrotomy Award for use of diamond-knife ultramicrotomy, which includes prizes of cash and Swiss watches.
