Three abstracts from our group receive a Cum Laude Merit award in the 2017 Annual Meeting of ISMRM. The Summa and Magna Cum Laude Merit awards are given to trainees whose abstract scored in the top 5% and 15%, respectively. Dominik receives a Summa Magna Cum laude Award for his abstract entitled “Probing bone marrow adipocyte cell size in vivo at a clinical 3 T scanner using high b-value DW-MRS at long diffusion times”. Barbara receives a Summa Magna Cum laude Award for her abstract entitled “Imaging of the brachial plexus using a 3D Dixon-TSE pulse sequence with blood vessel and CSF signal suppression: preliminary experience in children”. Max receives a Magna Cum laude Award for his abstract entitled “Simultaneous R2* and quantitative susceptibility mapping of trabecularized yellow bone marrow: initial results in the calcaneus”.