Congratulations to Yueyun Chen, a graduate student in Chris Regan’s group, for receiving the 2025 Castaing Award for Best Student Paper from Microscopy & Microanalysis!
Prof. Chris Regan received a 2024 APS GIMS Fellowship in recognition “for advancements in the capabilities of in situ transmission electron microscopy, liquid-cell microscopy, and nanometer-scale thermometry, with applications ranging from improvements in computer memories to batteries. This work has an impact on both basic research and industrial applications.”
Fellowship in the American Physical Society is a great honor. In accordance with the APS Constitution, “there shall be elected to Fellowship only such Members who have contributed to the advancement of physics by independent, original research or who have rendered some other special service to the cause of the sciences. Congratulations, Chris!
Prof. Andy Minor has been elected as a 2025 MSA Fellow. The designation “MSA Fellow” is intended to recognize those who have been conferred the Society’s Distinguished Scientist Awards, as well as senior distinguished members of the Society who have made significant contributions to the advancement of the field of microscopy and microanalysis through a combination of scientific achievement and service to the scientific community and the Society itself. MSA Fellows duly elected by recommendation of the Fellows Committee. Congratulations, Andy!
Prof. Jianwei (John) Miao has been selected to receive the 2026 Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science from the American Physical Society (APS). This award recognizes physicists who have been instrumental in the development of measurement techniques or equipment that have impact on the physics community by providing better measurements. Congratulations, John!
Prof. Naomi Ginsberg was nominated as an APS Laser Science Visionary Speaker at the Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science (FiO LS) Conference in September 2024. The title of her talk was, “Imaging Charge Carrier, Heat, and Ion Transport at the Nanoscale.” Congratulations, Naomi!
Prof. Naomi Ginsberg received the W. Albert Noyes, Jr. Distinguished Lecturer honor from the University of Rochester. This lectureship honors Professor Noyes, former chairman of the department, dean of the Graduate School and dean of the College of Arts and Science. Naomi’s talk was titled, “Visualizing and Controlling How Emerging Energy Materials Form, Transform, and Transport Energy at the Nanoscale.”
Prof. Franklin Dollar received the 2025 AISES Technical Excellence Award. The Technical Excellence awardee has made a significant contribution to science, engineering, or technology by having designed, developed, managed, or assisted in the development of a product, service, system, or intellectual property.
AISES professional honorees go beyond personal achievements, extending their commitment to excellence to co-workers, family, community youth, and Tribal and First Nations. Their narratives, intricately woven with resilience, hard work, dedication, and discovery, form the core of AISES stories.
AISES Professional Awardees are perpetual learners and visionaries, driven by a fervor for fostering high-quality collective thinking. As builders, they craft platforms that empower their organizations and communities. Whether embracing formal science later in life or creatively infusing Indigenous values into their work, these trailblazers produce innovation and inspiration. Congratulations, Franklin!
Prof. Kwabena Bediako received the 2025 Calvin University Alumni Award. This award is granted to Calvin alumni in recognition of young grads who are making a splash in their careers and communities, thus personifying the mission of the Calvin Alumni Association. Congratulations, Kwabena!
Prof. Kwabena Bediako has received a 2025 CIFAR Fellowship! The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) is a globally influential research organization proudly based in Canada. We mobilize the world’s most brilliant people across disciplines and at all career stages to advance transformative knowledge and solve humanity’s biggest problems, together. We are supported by the governments of Canada, Alberta and Québec, as well as Canadian and international foundations, individuals, corporations and partner organizations. Congratulations, Kwabena!
Prof. Kwabena Bediako received a 2025 Scialog Fellowship! Approximately 50 early career faculty are invited to participate as Fellows for each Scialog, with early career spanning the time from the first year on the faculty through recently post-tenure.
Scialog supports research, intensive dialogue, and community building to address scientific challenges of global significance. Within each multi-year initiative, Scialog Fellows participate in intensive discussions to identify bottlenecks and encourage innovative approaches, collaborate in high-risk discovery research on untested ideas, and communicate their progress in annual closed conferences. The Scialog process is guided by senior scientists recognized as world-leading researchers in the area of focus. Ultimately, Scialog aims to advance human knowledge by empowering a national community of early career scientists with many promising years of research ahead of them to tackle challenging multidisciplinary problems.
Scialog aims to support early career faculty to expand research in a focused area of high scientific importance; encourage scientists to form multidisciplinary teams to tackle these critical challenges; and help transition awardees to obtain further funding for their innovative ideas. Success for Scialog Fellows is measured by highly impactful results, ongoing support from private foundations and federal agencies, and, ultimately, scientific breakthroughs.