Winners Announced for AMPP’s 2025 Student Poster Session

Winners of the 2025 Student Poster Session were announced during an awards ceremony on Wednesday, April 9, at the AMPP Annual Conference + Expo in Nashville.

Sponsored by BP, awards were given to the top three posters in four categories: Fontana Category of Corrosion Engineering; Pourbaix Category of Corrosion Science; the Herro-Appleman Category of Applied Materials Protection Technology; and the David Shifler Undergraduate Category.

Judges reviewed a total of 71 posters, with students giving short presentations about their research on Monday and Tuesday. The awards ceremony was live-streamed on Facebook by CORROSION journal, the sponsoring publication, and the first-place winner of each of the three categories will be invited to write an open access poster letter published in CORROSION.

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Harvey Herro-Bernard Appleman Category of Applied Materials Protection Technology:

First Place: Minh Tran, University of Virginia
Second Place: Jacob Bolodosky, University of Alaska
Third Place: Agata Kolkowska, Silesian University of Technology

 

Mars Fontana Category of Corrosion Engineering:

First Place: Mahesh Karki, University of South Florida
Second Place: Favour Bawa, Ohio University
Third Place: Michael Jones, University of Leeds

 

Marcel Pourbaix Category of Corrosion Science:

First Place: Mariana Georges, The Ohio State University
Second Place: Prakirti Singh, University of South Florida
Third Place: Meggan Wolanin, The University of Texas, San Antonio

 

David Shifler Undergraduate Award:

First Place: Alice Pandaleon, University of Virginia (Fontana Category)
Second Place: Brooke Barlow, University of Alabama (Herro-Appleman Category)
Third Place: Finley Pettitt, University of Virginia (Pourbaix Category)

The ceremony can be viewed below, in its entirety.

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