Each year at the annual meeting of the Meteoritical Society, a few of the top oral presentations by student members are selected for awards. We are pleased to announce the awardees for the 2026 meeting, selected from 69 student presentations.
The McKay Award honors the memory of Gordon A. McKay. It was endowed in 2008 thanks to the generous donations of the McKay family and many society members. We are pleased that in 2026, the McKay Award is awarded to:
- Daniel L. Burgin (Curtin University, Australia) – PERCOLATIVE SULPHIDE-MAGNETITE CORE FORMATION IN HIGHLY OXIDISED ASTEROIDS.
The Wiley Awards have been given since 2012 and are sponsored by Wiley, the publisher of Meteoritics and Planetary Science. The five Wiley Award recipients for 2026 are:
- Basil Saleem (University of Chicago, USA) – SOLAR COSMOGENIC NEON IN CORUNDUM: EVIDENCE FOR EXTREME ACTIVITY OF THE YOUNG SUN BEFORE 26Al HOMOGENIZATION.
- Isabelle S.Mattia (Imperial College London, UK) – THE CHANGE IN COSMIC DUST FLUX THROUGH THE CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY
- Elana Alevy (University of Arizona, USA)– DIVERSITY OF SILICIC MATERIALS FROM VARIABLE LITHOLOGIES IN LUNAR BRECCIAS.
- Kit-Hung Mark Lee (The Open University, UK) – DEVELOPING MICRO-SAMPLING TECHNIQUES FOR LASER-ASSISTED FLUORINATION ANALYSIS OF MARTIAN POLYMICT BRECCIAS
- Sako Sunami (Tohoku University, Japan) – ASTEROIDAL SUGAR SYNTHESIS SHOWN BY THE ABUNDANCE AND COMPOSITION OF SUGARS IN CM CHONDRITES.
Congratulations to the awardees for outstanding presentations! Additionally, thank you to Romy Hanna for chairing the committee, and to these 61 additional individuals for their judging reports:
Aaron Bell, Aaron Cavosie, Agata Krzesinska, Aine O'Brien, Alissa Madera, Allan Treiman, Amanda Ostwald, Annemarie Pickersgill, Audrey Bouvier, Beverley Tkalcec, Carine Sadaka, Carl Alwmark, Carolyn Crow, Christian Schröder, Christopher Hamann, Cristian Carli, Cécile Deligny, Denton Ebel, Eleanor Jennings, Elena Dobrică, Evgenia Salin, Fatima Ezzahra Jadid, Gabriel Pinto, Harry Becker, Helena Bates, Hilary Downes, Ioana-Lucia Boaca, Jakob Wilk, Jan Hellmann, Jan Leitner, Jennifer Mitchell, Jens Barosch, John Spray, Joshua Snape, Julie Korsmeyer, Juulia-Gabrielle Moreau, Kuljeet Marhas, Linru Fang, Marine Ciocco, Matthew Genge, Maxwell Thiemens, Megumi Matsumoto, Melissa Strait, Moshammat Mijjum, Prajkta Mane, Rachel Kirby, Rashida Doctor, Ren Thomas Marquez, Sarah Crowther, Satvika Jaiswal, Tianqi Xie, Toru Yada, Venkateswara Rao Manga, William Hyde, Xiang Wang, Xin Yang, Yang Liu, Yoshihiro Furukawa, Zoltan Vaci.
We all appreciate that we are able to celebrate the scientific contributions of our student members through these awards associated with our annual meeting.