Award Winners

• Taras Turiv, Kent State University – “Living cells patterned by liquid crystals” (Advisor: Prof. Oleg Lavrentovich)

• Sonal Bhadauriya, The University of Akron – “Tracking the Stability of Imprinted Nano-composite Structures via Atomic Force Microscopy”

• Michael Presby, The University of Akron – “Characterizing Impact Damage of Ceramic Matrix Composites using Micro-Computed Tomography and Optical Microscopy”
  (Advisor: Prof. Greg Morscher)

• Dinesh Lolla, The University of Akron, “Inside Nanofibers- Where atoms, molecules and fibers are seen” (Advisor: Prof. Darrell Reneker)
• Harry Scott, Case Western Reserve University, “Architecture of the Schizosaccharomyces Pombe Ccq1-Tpz1-Poz1 telomeric complex” (Advisor: Prof. Derek Taylor)

• Samantha Mock and Thomas Stoner, Youngstown State University, “Morphological Support Effects in Metal-CeO2 Catalysts for CO Oxidation” (Advisor: Prof. Ruigang Wang)
• ​Emmanuel Anim-Danso, The University of Akron, “​Shedding Light on Water and Ice Interactions With Solid Surfaces” (Advisor: Prof. Ali Dhinojwala)

• Dr. Regan Silvestri, Lorain County Community College
• Dr. Lu Zou, Kent State University

*MSNO Student Awards: We present 1-2 awards to excellent student microscopy research each year. The award includes $100 monetary prize and a sponsorship to attend national microscopy meetings (up to $500).
**MSNO Member Appreciation Awards: We present 1-2 awards each year to the most helpful non-board members in organizing MSNO events.

​Student Oral Presentation Winners

Grand Prize:
Taras Turiv, Kent State University, “Living Cells Patterned by Liquid Crystals”

1st prize:
Eleana Cintron, Lorain County Community College, “Identifying Optimal Temperatures for hliA Primer Sets”

2nd prize:
Louis Ray, The University of Akron, “Single Bacterial Cell Monitoring of Antibiotic Action Using a Fluorescent Redox Sensitive Dye”
Veronica Livingstone, The University of Toledo, “Low Temperature Synthesis of Nanocrystalline V2O5 using the Non-hydrolytic Sol-gel Method”

3rd prize:
Evan Kolodey, Lorain County Community College, “Validation of a New Test Method Created to Evaluate Novel Insulating Materials for Hypersonic Aerospace Applications”
Zhiling Zhao, The University of Akron, “Positive and Negative Feedback Theory and Experiments in Hot-Tip Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy”
Innocent Demshemino, The University of Akron, “Self-Assembly of Guanidium Appended Tetraphenylporphyrin Derivative”

Student Poster Presentation Winners

Biological Sciences Section

1st prize:
Steve Mares, Lorain County Community College, “Analysis of a Complete Knockout of the CCR5 Gene by CRISPR/Cas9”

2nd prize:
Taehwan Kim, Youngstown State University, “Encapsulation of Ciprofloxacin within Modified Tough Poly (acrylamide-co-alginate) Hydrogel for Drug Delivery in Wound Dressings”

Physical Sciences Section

1st prize:
La’Nese Lovings, The University of Toledo, “Synthesis and Characterization of AlxSc2-xMo3O12 using Non-hydrolytic Sol-gel Methods”

2nd prize:
Eleana Cintron, Lorain County Community College, “Evaluating Ceramic Electrolyte Morphology Composed of Several Compositions via the Phase Inversion Method”