2017 M&M Student Scholars
Below are listed M&M Student Scholars funded by MSA. For a list of MAS-funded M&M Student Scholars, click here.
Jay Aindow* Academy of Aerospace and Engineering
Eutectic Solidification in Zn-Sn Binary Alloys: An Experiment for High Schools
*MSA K-12 Student Scholarship
Marwa Belhaj University of South Carolina
Alginate Microcapsule Technology and Impacts on Cell Therapy Development
Gabriel A. Calderon Ortiz The Ohio State University
Determining Nanoscale Molecular Ordering in Semiconducting Polymers
Allessandra DiCorato Northwestern University
A Correlative Cryo-Fluorescence and CryoSEM Approach for Visualizing Nanomaterials in Glioblastoma Tissue
Ismail El Baggari Cornell University
Emergent Phase Coherence of Stripe Order in Manganites Revealed with Cryogenic Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
Bryan D. Esser The Ohio State University
Structural and Magnetic Characterization of B20 Skyrmion Thin Films and Heterostructures using Aberration-Corrected Lorentz TEM and Differential Phase Contrast STEM
Everett D. Grimley North Carolina State University
Compositional Ordering and Polar Nano-Regions: Physical Effects of Sn Alloying in SrTiO3 Thin Films
Diane M. Haiber Arizona State University
Monochromated EELS and Optical Spectroscopy of Layered Carbon Nitrides
Liang Hong University of Illinois at Chicago
In-situ STEM-EELS Observation of Ferroelectric Switching of BaTiO3 Film on GaAs
Yi Jiang Cornell University
Enhanced Resolution from Full-Field Ptychography with an Electron Microscope Pixel Array Detector
Takaaki Kinoshita Soka University, Japan
The Atmospheric Scanning Electron Microscope (ASEM) Observes the Axonal Compartmentalization and Microtubule Formation in Neurons
James L. Kizziah University of Alabama at Birmingham
Structure and Function of the Staphylococcus aureus Bacteriophage 80α Baseplate
Prashant Kumar University of Minnesota
Early Growth Stages of Directly Synthesized Large-Area Zeolite Nanosheets
Jiayao Li Monash University, Australia
Nanoindentation on Graphene Encapsulated Single Cells
Alexandra J. Machen University of Kansas Medical Center
Single Particle CryoEM of the Anthrax Toxin Initial Engagement Complex
Vinal Menon University of South Carolina
Molecular Consequences of Cardiac Valve Development as a Result of Altered Hemodynamics
Katerina Naydenova MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom
Efficient Cryo-EM: Measuring Effects of Particle Orientation in Electron Microscopy
S. M. Bukola Obayomi Arizona State University
Imaging Live Uterine Tissue Modulation using Confocal Microscopy
Katherine A. Spoth Cornell University
Dose-Efficient Cryo-STEM Imaging of Whole Cells using the Electron Microscope Pixel Array Detector
Congli Sun University of Wisconsin-Madison
Identification and Quantification of Boron Dopant Sites in Antiferromagnetic Cr2O3 Films by Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
Aakash M. Varambhia University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Quantitative STEM of Catalyst Nanoparticles using ADF Imaging with Simultaneous EDS and EELS Spectroscopy
Kartik Venkatraman Arizona State University
Probing Interfacial and Surface Effects with Vibrational Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
HsinWei Wu Arizona State University
Aberration-corrected STEM Imaging and EELS Mapping of BaTiO3/SrTiO3 Interfacial Defects
Jie E. Yang* Boston University School of Medicine
Cryo-electron Tomography Analysis of Infectious Extracellular Vesicles from a Non-enveloped RNA Virus
*Raleigh & Clara Miller Memorial Scholarship
Chenyu Zhang University of Wisconsin-Madison
Joint Denoising and Distortion Correction for Atomic Column Detection in Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Images
Pei Zhang University of Wisconsin-Madison
Atomic-scale Relaxation Dynamics in the Supercooled Liquid State of a Metallic Glass Nanowire by Electron Correlation Microscopy
Yong Zhang Monash University, Australia
Structure and Function of Nano-sized InSb Precipitate Embedded in an Al Alloy