The following awards were presented during the plenary session of the 57th Annual Denver X-Ray Conference:
The 2008 Birks Award was presented to Professor Rene Van Grieken (the chief editor of X-Ray Spectrometry journal), University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
The 2008 Jerome B. Cohen Student Award was presented to Mr. Sterling Cornaby, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, for work entitled, "Bifocal miniature toroidal shaped X-ray mirrors
The 2008 McMurdie Award was presented to Dr. Jeffrey Dann, Osram Sylvania, Towanda, PA
Proferssor Rene Van Grieken was awarded the Birks Award.
