CONGRATULATIONS TO MSA MAJOR SOCIETY AWARD WINNERS FOR 2014 On behalf of the MSA Awards committee, please join me in congratulating our 2014 major Society award winners. They are: Distinguished Scientist, Biological Sciences – Dr. Wah Chiu, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas Distinguished Scientist, Physical Sciences – Dr. David Smith, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona Burton Medal – Dr. Maria Varela, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee Hildegard H. Crowley Outstanding Technologist Award, Biological Sciences – Dr. Hong Yi, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Chuck Fiori Outstanding Technologist Award, Physical Sciences – Dr. Eddy Garcia-Meitin, The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Michigan Morton D. Maser Distinguished Service Award – Michael Marko, Wadsworth Center, Albany, New York Albert Crewe Award in Physical Sciences – Dr. Jinwoo Hwang, University of California, Santa Barbara, California George Palade Award in Biological Sciences – Dr. Ricardo Guerrero-Ferreira, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland These researchers are nationally and internationally renown for their distinguished contributions to the field of microscopy. They will receive their awards on Monday morning, August 4, during the Plenary Session at the M&M 2014 conference in Hartford, Connecticut. Nomination packages for 2015 awards in each of these categories are due to the MSA Headquarters ([email protected]) by November 15, 2014. Directions on preparing a nomination package are given at this website: http://www.microscopy.org/awards/past.cfm . Consider nominating a worthy individual today!