Second-year student Laura Seifert received a Student Scholar Award from the Microanalysis Society of America for her contributed paper, Multi-keV Analyses of a Presolar Mg-Silicate Grain via SEM/STEM.

The award is presented for outstanding papers submitted to the annual Microscopy & Microanlaysis (M&M) meeting and supports the costs of travel and registration to the annual M&M meeting. The award was presented to Laura at the 2018 M&M meeting held in Baltimore. Laura's research interests include cosmochemistry and planetary surfaces; her advisor is Associate Professor Tom Zega.