Awards

Student Awards

This page contains information and application procedure for the following student awards:

Graduate Student Travel Awards ($1,000 - scroll down for more information and application link). Application deadline is January 15.
Undergraduate Student Travel Awards ($500 - scroll down for more information and application link). Application deadline is January 15.
Undergraduate Poster Competition ($300 - scroll down for more information)

Student travel stipends for the annual conference ($300 for student workers) are found here Annual Conference / Student Stipends.

The ASMS Graduate Student Award recognizes graduate students whose academic achievements and current mass spectrometry research display a high level of excellence and distinction. Up to twenty awards for up to $1,000 each will be conferred annually. The Award is intended to support ASMS conference travel. Conference attendance is required. Only one applicant per research group may apply. Note: In selected cases, awards may be used for travel to attend a non-ASMS conference to present mass spectrometry research in a topic area not covered at the ASMS conference. See online application for details.

The awards for the ASMS Conference will be presented at the conference. Each award includes $1,000, free conference registration, and a matted certificate.

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Graduate Student Travel Awards: Eligibility & Application Elements

+ Applicant Eligibility Requirements
- Applicant must be an ASMS student member who is in the 2nd year or more of a PhD degree program at the time of the conference and presenting author on an abstract submitted online for the ASMS annual conference (or non-ASMS conference, if applicable).
- An individual may receive no more than one ASMS travel award per calendar year, including travel awards for Asilomar Conference, Fall Workshop, and Sanibel Conference. Past Graduate Student Travel Award winners (this award) may not reapply in future years.
- Limited to one applicant per research group.
+ Required Application Elements
You will need the following items in PDF format to upload with online application. Only one student per research group may apply. The deadline to apply is January 15.
- 1-2 page (including figures) description of your graduate student research (pdf only)
- CV (pdf only)
- For ASMS annual conference travel, PDF of the submitted abstract on which applicant is presenting author and the six-digit code for your submitted abstract. Annual conference abstract submission must be completed before award application.
- Applicant statement about why you should be selected for this award.
- PDF letter of support from your advisor. You can upload this or advisor may send directly to info@asms.org with your last name in subject line. Letters must be received by the January 15 deadline for dossier to be considered.
Go to Online Application for Graduate Student Travel Awards.

The ASMS Undergraduate Student Travel Award recognizes up undergraduate students whose academic achievements and interest in mass spectrometry research display a high level of excellence and distinction. Up to ten awards of $500 each will be conferred annually. The Award is intended to support ASMS conference travel. Conference attendance is required. Only one applicant per research group may apply.

The awards will be presented at the conference. Each award includes $500, free conference registration and a matted certificate. Applicants may also participate in the conference poster competition for undergraduate students.

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Undergraduate Student Travel Awards: Eligibility & Application Elements

+ Applicant Eligibility Requirements
- Applicant must be enrolled full time in an undergraduate degree program or within one month of graduation at the time of the conference and presenting author on an abstract submitted online for the ASMS annual conference.
- An individual may receive no more than one ASMS travel award per calendar year. Past winners of this award are not eligible to reapply in future years.
- Limited to one applicant per research group.
+ Required Application Elements
You will need the following in PDF format to upload with online application. Only one student per research group may apply. Deadline to apply is January 15.
- Completed and signed Undergraduate Student Advisor and Description (PDF).
- For ASMS annual conference travel, PDF of the submitted abstract on which applicant is presenting author and the six-digit code for your submitted abstract. Annual conference abstract submission must be completed before award application.
Go to Online Application for ASMS Undergraduate Travel Awards.

2022 Graduate Student Travel Awards Winners

Hongxia Bai
North Carolina State University

Alexandria Battison
University of Connecticut

Hsi-Chun Chao
Purdue University

Janine Fu
University of California, Los Angeles

Michael Gilbert
University of Pennsylvania

Jian Guo
University of British Columbia

Hang Hu
Purdue University

Jacob Jordan
University of California, Berkeley

Kaylie Kirkwood
North Carolina State University

Zachary Kirsch
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Gordon Luu
University of California, Santa Cruz

Jake Melby
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Hannah Miles
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Alice Passoni
Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS

Amber Rolland
University of Oregon

Jonathan Specker
University of Florida

Diana Velosa
Florida Institute of Technology

Shunyang Wang
University of California, Davis

Tian Xu
Michigan State University

Dong Zhang
Texas Tech University

2022 Undergraduate Student Travel Award Winners

Mustafa Ahmed
George Washington University

Nickolas Fisher
University of Texas, Austin

Keely Fuller
Stanford University

Peter McPike
University of Akron

Hsu-Ching Yen
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Undergraduate Poster Awards ($300)

To promote and recognize research using mass spectrometry among undergraduate students attending the ASMS annual conference a poster competition is organized annually during the opening reception of the conference.

Poster award winners receive a certificate and a check for $300. To participate in the competition, undergraduate students must indicate their interest during the online abstract submission process by answering 'Yes' an undergraduate is presenting author on this abstract (in Questions section of abstract submission.)

Past Recipients - All Student Awards

Graduate Student Travel

2021: Linda Berg Luecke (Medical College of Wisconsin), Valentine Courouble (Scripps Reseach), Roshan Javanshad (Western Michigan University), Benjamin Jones (The Ohio State University), Carter Lantz (University of California Los Angeles), Yangjie Li (Purdue University), Yiran Liang (Brigham Young University), Laura Muehlbauer (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Thao Nguyen Princeton (Princeton University), Melanie Odenkirk (North Carolina State University), Crystal Pace (North Carolina State University), Deanna Plubell (University of Washington), Deseree Reid (University of Arizona), David Roberts (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Patric Sadecki (UNC - Chapel Hill), Ian Smith (University of Washington), Dylan Tabang (University of Wisconsin), Shuli Tang (Texas A&M University), Daisy Unsihuay (Purdue University), Tim Van Den Bossche (Ghent University)

2020: Kyle Brown (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Laura Castellanos-Garcia (University of Massachusetts-Amherst), Edwin Escobar (University of Texas-Austin), Kyana Garza (University of Texas-Austin), Elaura Gustafson (Brigham Young University), Conner Harper (University of California-Berkeley), Christian Ieritano (University of Waterloo), Yekaterina Kori (University of Pennsylvania), Remi Lawal (Louisiana State University), Miyang Li (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Allyson Mellinger (North Carolina State Univ.), Tessa Moyer (Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), Melissa Pergande (University of Illinois at Chicago), Baiyi Quan (Duke University), Jordan Rabus (Ohio University), Bailey Rose (Vanderbilt University), Joshua Salem (University of Michigan), Xiaojing Shen (Michigan State University), Pei Su (Purdue University), Mengru Zhang (Washington University in St Louis)

2019: Molly Blevins (University of Texas at Austin), Wanying Cao (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Ming Cheng (Washington University in St.Louis), Sean Cleary (University of Oregon), Mariel Coradin (University of Pennsylvania), Kellen DeLaney (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Kristen Fowble (University at Albany-SUNY), Naren Gajenthra Kumar (Virginia Commonwealth University), Praveen Kumar (University of Minnesota), Ting-Hao Kuo (National Taiwan University), Chenxi Liu (University of Arizona), Elijah McCool (Michigan State University), Sibylle Pfammatter (IRIC-Université de Montréal), Jaqueline A. Picache (Vanderbilt University), Erika Portero (University of Maryland, College Park), Marta Sans Escofet (University of Texas at Austin), Leah Schaffer (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Savannah Snyder (The University of Akron), Yang Tang (Boston University), Trisha Tucholski (University of Wisconsin – Madison), and Jacob Wozniak (University of California, San Diego)

2018: Rodell Barrientos (University of North Carolina-Greensboro), Isabell Blaudau (ETH Zurich), Wenxuan Cai (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Maria Emilia Duenas (Iowa State University), Lidong He (Florida State University), Camille Lombard-Banek (University of Maryland), Damon May (University of Washington), Logan Plath (Carnegie Mellon University), Mei Sun (University of Oklahoma), and Kenneth Swanson (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

2017: Melissa Budelier (Washington University), Bifan Chen (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Bingming Chen (University of Wisconsin-Madison), James Dodds (Vanderbilt University), Paul Hutchins (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Rosemary Onjiko (George Washington University), Elizabeth Peuchen (University of Notre Dame), Lindsay Pino (University of Washington), Matthew Waas (Medical College of Wisconsin), and Emily Werth (Univeristy of North Carolina)

2016: Zachery Gregorich (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Nathan Hendricks (University of California, Riverside), Stephen Sciuto (The University of Toronto), Johanna Hofman (Max Planck Society), Xibei Dang (Florida State University), Candice Ulmer (University of Florida), Brent Kuenzi (University of South Florida), Yejing Weng (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Anumita Saha-Shah (Indiana University), Ramsunder Iyer (University of Tennessee)

2015: Benjamin Diner (Princeton University), Albert Konijnenberg (University of Antwerp), Xin Liu (University of Notre Dame), Mandy Phelps (University of North Texas), Nicholas Riley (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Vincent Sica (University of North Carolina-Greensboro), Chih-Chiang Tsou (University of Michigan)

Undergraduate Student Travel

2021: Nancy Abdelrahman (North Carolina State University), Ashish Chakraborty (University of Texas), Wenya Jian (University of North Carolina), Tsach Mackey (Georgetown University), Rajendra Panth (Western Michigan University), Alicia Plourde (University of Guelph), Qiuwen Quan (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Caroline Roycroft (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Anna Rullan Buxo (Yale University), Leighann Weber (James Madison University)

2020: Kristie Baker (Florida Institute of Technology), Rebecca Cain (Indiana-Purdue Indianapolis), Eloisa Franco (Kean University), Jaybree Lopez (University of California-Los Angeles), Nolan McLaughlin (University of Scranton), Marco Melgar (University of Florida), Matthew Portis (University of Florida), Tiffany Thein (Stanford University), Frank Yenchick (Wayne State University)

2019: Shelby Beasley (University of Oklahoma), Alisha Birk (Stanford University), Cameron Davis (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory), Richard Dilworth (University of Florida), Anna Iacovino (Duquesne University), Kaylie Kirkwood (North Carolina State University), Abigail Lemmon (University of Pennsylvania), Javier Moreno (Florida International University), Amanda Wong (Saint Mary's College of California), and Emily Ziperman (Baylor University)

2018: Amanda Bubas (Duquesne University), Devon Colby (University of Oklahoma), Liam Dugan (Allegheny College), Christopher Gongar (University of Florida), Connor Graca (Duquesne University), Petra Paizs (Imperial College London), Sanjit (Sunny) Uppal (University of Washington), Nakit Vanishetty (Rice University), Jada Walker (Saint Mary’s College of California), and Anne Worth (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

2017: Giovanni Calderisi (University of Innsbruck), Jack Clemmensen (Saint Mary's College of California), Jason Cochran (University of Florida), Mirna Giron (Kean University), Christopher Gongar (University of Florida), Shilpa Kolachina (University of Illinois at Chicago), and John Lin (University of Texas at Austin)

2016: Willem Duckworth (Clarkson University), Carlo Eikani (Saint Mary's College of California), Matthew Kazaleh (University of Florida), Yekaterina Kori (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Rachel Martini (University of Michigan), Evan Perez (Duquesne University)

2015: Quintin Ferraris (Kean University), Joshua Fischer (Wayne State University), James Keating (University of Michigan), James Matilla (James Madison University), Danielle McDougall (University of Florida), Haley Miller (Bowdoin College), Sydney Morris (George Washington University), Alexandra Plaviak (Duquesne University), Cheylene Tanimoto (Stanford University), Nick van Huizen (Erasmus MC)

Undergraduate Student Poster

2021: Nancy Abdelrahman (North Carolina State University), Makalya Baxter (Idaho National Laboratory), Ashish Chakraborty (University of Texas). Cameron Shedlock (University of Scranton)

2020: Cameron Lloyd-Jones (Northwestern University), Meg McCutcheon (Baylor University), Nolan McLaughlin (University of Scranton), Tiffany Thein (Stanford University), Alicia Plourde (University of Guelph), Qiuwen Quan (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Caroline Roycroft (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Anna Rullan Buxo (Yale University), Leighann Weber (James Madison University)

2019: Joshua Ho (University of Pacific), Virginia James (College of Charleston), and Shubhneet Warer (Baylor University),