ASMS Recognizes 20 Graduate Students and 10 Undergraduate Students

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The American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) has announced the winners of the 2023 ASMS Graduate and Undergraduate Student Awards.

These graduate student awards recognize graduate students whose academic achievements and current mass spectrometry research display a high level of excellence and distinction. Each year, up to 20 students are eligible to win this award. The student awards are intended to support ASMS conference travel for the recipients.

ASMS recognizes the following 20 students, who are receiving the 2023 Graduate Student Travel Awards:

Elizabeth Bayne of the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Danielle Caefer of the University of Connecticut

Hsin-Hsiang Chung of National Taiwan University

Steven DeFiglia of the University of Michigan

Sarah Dowling of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Kimberly Fabijanczuk of Purdue University

Ashley Frankenfield of George Washington University

Viraj Gandhi of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Yanting Guo of the University of Oklahoma

Amanda Khoo of the University of Toronto

David Koomen of Vanderbilt University

Nicolas Morato of Purdue University

Leena Pade of the University of Maryland-College Park

Austin Salome of the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Amanda Smythers of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Madison Turner of the University of Guelph

Benqian Wei of the University of California, Los Angeles

David Williamson of the University of Utah

Tingyuan Yang of Texas A&M University

Kejun Yin of the Georgia Institute of Technology

All the 2023 graduate student awardees are ASMS student members who are in the second year or more of a PhD degree program at the time of the 2023 conference. Each award includes $1000, free conference registration, and a matted certificate, which is presented at the conference.

ASMS has also recognized the following 10 undergraduate students, who are receiving the 2023 Undergraduate Student Travel Awards:

Megan Bindra of Saint Mary’s College of California

Emily Boyette of South Florida State College

Olivia Dioli of North Carolina State University

Celine Ertekin of the University of California, Santa Cruz

Dinuri Fernando of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Yu Tin Lin of the University of Florida

Lawren Paris of the University of Oregon

Aliyah Remoroza of the University of Maryland Baltimore County

Philenroza Thavrin of Oregon State University

Oliver Wu of the University of Oklahoma

The ASMS Undergraduate Student Travel Awards recognize undergraduate students whose academic achievements and interest in mass spectrometry research display a high level of excellence and distinction. The Undergraduate Student Awards are intended to support ASMS conference travel for the selected recipients.

All the 2023 awardees are enrolled full time in an undergraduate degree program or within one month of graduation at the time of the 2023 conference. Each award includes $500, free conference registration, and a matted certificate, which is presented at the conference. Awardees also have the opportunity participate in the conference poster competition for undergraduate students.

The 2023 ASMS Conference will be held June 4–8 in Houston, Texas.