Microscopy Society of America

Executive Council Meeting Minutes

Memphis, TN

January 27-29, 2006

Draft by BO - Submitted to Sec. 3/22/06

Secretary Approval 3/24/06

Sent to Webmaster for Posting

Council Approval 7/28/06

MSA Council Present: Appointed Officers & Guests

Jay Jerome, President Ron Anderson, M&M 2007 LAC Chair

Michael O'Keefe, President-Elect Michael Bode, Sustaining Members Chair

Grace Burke, Past President Ron Gronsky, Publications Chair

Jeanette Killius, Secretary Paul Kotula, M&M 2006 Program Chair

Ev Osten, Treasurer Andree Kraker, Sustaining Members Comm.

William T. Gunning III John Mansfield, Education Chair

John Mackenzie, Jr. Michael Marko, M&M 2007 Program Chair

Dave Piston Beverly Maleeff, Focused Int. Group Chair

Lou Ross Sara Miller, Exhibitor Liaison

Supapan Seraphin Bob Price, M&M 2005 Program Chair

Robert Simmons Janet Woodward, Immediate Past Secretary

David Smith Nestor Zaluzec, M&M 2006 LAC Chair

Staff Present:

Judy Janes, Deputy Director

Phillip Ridley, Meeting Manager

Chris McKeachie

1. CALL TO ORDER

The meeting was called to order at 8:05 am, February 28, 2006, and a quorum was recognized.

2. WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS (J. Jerome)

President Jerome welcomed Council and invited guests; introduced new Meeting Manager Phillip Ridley and announced appointment of Judy Janes as MSA Deputy Director. All attendees introduced themselves.

3. PAST PRESIDENT REMARKS (G. Burke)

Past President Burke commented on 2005 accomplishments including establishment of the Finance Committee, Exhibitor Liaison; reactivation of the Publications and Membership Committees (reinvigorated Focused Interest Group Committee). New initiatives for 2005 included 1) Membership Services Center (on-line renewals/applications) 2) initiation of President-Liaison-Committee Chair-Business Office teleconferences 3) improved communication with membership 4) focus on IT/web and 5) MSA-Portuguese Microscopy Society collaboration and VIP welcome at Annual Meeting.

4. SECRETARY'S REPORT (J. Killius)

Written report of past Secretary Janet Woodward reviewed and new Secretary Jeanette Killius was introduced.

Upon a MOTION duly carried, the Meeting Minutes of Summer Council 2005 were accepted as written.

5. NEW FORMAT OF COUNCIL BOOK (J. Janes)

New format of Council and committee reports for Council advance review as a Word document CD was accepted. MSA Secretary will maintain archival copy of reports as well as the MSA Business Office.

6. TREASURER'S REPORT (E. Osten)

Written report reviewed and recap of 2005 major expenses was reviewed. Council was reminded of earlier strategy of goal of $750,000 in reserve. It was recommended that after Chicago, Microscopy & Microanalysis be held in Tier 2 cities in an effort to get back on track and to meet financial goals. It was suggested to obtain information from the last 7 years of income from dues and expenses to provide information for better long-range planning.

Upon a MOTION duly carried, the Treasurer's Report was accepted.

7. LIAISON ASSIGNMENTS (J. Jerome)

President Jerome announced the 2006 liaison assignments as follows:

Committee/Chair Liaison

Annual Meeting Piston

LAC/Zaluzec

Pre-Meeting/Kabius

Program/Kotula

Archives/Marko Simmons

Awards/Gunning Gunning

Business Office/Janes Jerome

Bylaws/Killius Killius

Certification Board/Ellis Smith

Education/Mansfield Mackenzie

Finance/Osten Osten

Focused Interest Groups/Maleeff Killius

Information Technology/Zaluzec Jerome

International/Dempere Smith

Legal Liaison/Ingram Jerome

Local Affiliated Societies/Ross Ross

Marketing & Communications/Fischione O'Keefe

Meeting Management/Ridley Jerome

Membership/Killius Killius

Nominating/Burke Burke

Placement/Lloyd Mackenzie

Public Policy/Ingram Seraphin

Publications/Gronsky Burke

Journal/Lyman

Magazine/Anderson

Proceedings/McKernan

EXPO/Edelman

Call for Papers/Anderson

Poster Production/Anderson

Sustaining Members/Bode O'Keefe

Technologists' Forum/Woodward Ross

8. BUSINESS OFFICE REPORT & ORIENTATION (J. Janes)

Janes reviewed the MSA organization and provided contact information of main contacts for banking, insurance, legal and financial audit as well as Business Office staff contact information. Plans are underway to set up teleconferences with presidents, liaisons, committee chair to facilitate regular and timely communications with committees between Council Meetings.

Council Handbooks and Annual Meeting Guidelines were distributed to incoming Council members (Ross, Seraphin, Simmons).

9. MICROSCOPY & MICROANALYSIS 2005 -HONOLULU

Program (B. Price)

Written report reviewed; no action required.

Highlights of M&M 2006 included:

1) over 1130 presentations were given; 490 posters

2) first authors of presentations represented 40 countries including an

outstanding representation from many of the CAPSM representatives

3) additional funding was provided to 7 students through the Raleigh Miller

Student Scholarship and the American Association of Anatomists awards

It was suggested that a speaker website be established for more efficient operation of speaker activities relative to registration and travel allowances.

Council expressed appreciation for Price's successful program and congratulated him and the Program Committee for their efforts in producing an outstanding scientific program.

Local Arrangements (T. Carvalho)

Written report reviewed; no action required.

10. MICROSCOPY & MICROANALYSIS 2006-CHICAGO

Program (P. Kotula)

Written report reviewed, no action required. Plans are being made to notify the invited speakers of registration and travel allowances. There was discussion of having sponsored beer stations with wine and soda to attract attendees to the exhibit floor. Kotula will take up with the Local Arrangements Chair and the Meeting Manager.
Sponsorships were discussed for beverages but it was felt that sponsorships for speaker expenses would be better.

Local Arrangements (LAC) (Zaluzec)

Written report reviewed; no action required. It was reported that Damian Neuberger could no longer serve as LAC Treasurer due to health reasons.

M&M 2006 hotels will be the Sheraton and Holiday Inn. Student housing at the University Center was discussed and it was recommended to advise students to secure housing at the M&M 2006 hotels to avoid effecting hotel attrition.

Student bursaries will be available at M&M 2006 and John Shields will be contacted to administer this program.

Plans are for the Presidential Reception to be held at the Chicago Athletic Club.

The Sunday Opening Reception will take place at the Sheraton. The original plans were to have the reception at the Navy Pier Grand Ballroom. Because of the double booking and penalties it was decided to go with half the space at the Sheraton. The Secretary should have copies of all contracts because of issues encountered with negotiating food contracts far in advance in order to set budgets.

The LAC committee has filed for state and city taxes to be waived for M&M 2006 at Navy Pier.

Nestor recommended an approach to determining the budget for the Opening Receptions for future Meetings, one that is based on a per person meal rate rather than a flat amount. This would take into consideration added costs of hosting the Annual Meeting in Tier 1 cities and would make for more realistic budgeting. Nestor presented a chart for illustration using the government meal rate to establish a base line. If 20% was added to the base to allow for gratuities plus city and state taxes, then an estimated rate per person x 900 could be used to estimate the budget.

Meeting Manager (Ridley)

Ridley reported that 63% of exhibitors were booked. Meetings with Fred Stone and the audio visual team were held to review plans for M&M 2006.

Future Sites

Several locations are under review for future M&M sites.

There is a letter of intent for hosting M&M 2009 in Baltimore and M&M 2010 in Portland.

Presentations were made by Sara Miller for hosting an M&M 2011 in Richmond and by John Mansfield for hosting in Grand Rapids at M&M 2011, M&M 2012 or M&M 2013.

Other sites under consideration are: Baltimore, Cleveland, Ft. Worth, Indianapolis, Memphis, Nashville and Vancouver. Atlanta and Dallas will not be considered.

It was suggested that appropriate sites for M&M would be ones that are exhibitor-friendly with unions and affordable by the exhibitors in terms of shipping equipment and instrumentation to the exhibit.

11. MICROSCOPY & MICROANALYSIS 2007 - Ft. Lauderdale

Program (Marko)

Written report reviewed.

Upon a MOTION duly carried, the 2007 Pre-Meeting Congress will be named in memory of Stan Erlandsen.

President Jerome will notify Carol Wells and also extend an invitation to attend M&M 2007.

Marko reported that there will be adequate meeting room space in Ft. Lauderdale for the scientific program and committee meetings. A proposed budget was reviewed.

Upon a MOTION duly carried, $160,000 overall budget for the M&M 2007 Program Committee was approved.

Local Arrangements Committee - Anderson

Written report reviewed. Ron and Dale Anderson made a site visit to the convention center and gave a presentation of the Ft. Lauderdale convention center. Ron and Dale Anderson will co-chair the LAC, and have recruited committee members Tony Greco, Amelia Dempere (treasurer) and Andree Kraker (logo, publicity).

Upon a MOTION duly carried, $24,000 has been approved for the 2007 Local Arrangements Committee budget.

[COMMITTEE REPORTS]

12. ARCHIVES (Marko/Simmons)

Written report reviewed; no action required. A memorial poster in the name of Stan Erlandsen will be created for M&M 2007.

13. AWARDS (Gunning)

[Closed Session - January 27, 2006]

Upon a MOTION duly carried, the 2006 major Society awards were approved as follows:

Distinguished Scientist, Biological Sciences - Joseph S. Wall, Ph.D., Brookhaven National Laboratory

Distinguished Scientist, Physical Sciences - J. C. H. Spence, Ph.D., Arizona State University

Burton Medal - David A. Muller, Ph.D., Cornell University

Mort D Maser Distinguished Service Award - Jeanette Killius, Northeastern Ohio University College of Medicine

14. CERTIFICATION BOARD (Ellis/Smith)

Written report reviewed; no action required.

15. EDUCATION (Mansfield/Mackenzie)

Written report reviewed; no action required.

16. FINANCE COMMITTEE

Report and recommendations will be submitted at the 2006 Summer Council Meeting.

17. FOCUSED INTEREST GROUPS (FIGs) (Maleeff/Killius)

Written report reviewed.

Upon a MOTION duly carried, the Focused Interest Groups Guidelines were approved with addition to Section 5f (Functions) that 1) non-M&M-related workshops and special meetings require approval of full MSA Council; and 2) addition of Section 3h (Administration) that all candidates for election to any FIG Office (Leader, Leader-Elect, Secretary/Treasurer) must be current dues-paying members of both MSA and the FIG for which they seek office. See Appendix A.

Upon a MOTION duly carried, the request from Caroline Miller to organize a new Cryomicroscopy Focused Interest Group with 10 dues-paying MSA members is approved.

Upon a MOTION duly carried, consideration of Survey Monkey will be given for future elections.

Bev Maleeff was appointed to chair an ad hoc committee to look into forming a student Focused Interest Group to offer a student poster competition, mentorship, CV preparation advice and other career-building tools. Jeanette Killius, as membership chair, was asked to serve on the committee to continue to explore ways to increase student membership in the Society. It was recommended that name badges identifying the students be used at Annual Meetings for the MSA leadership to easily spot the students to greet and welcome them. Student members will have tickets to the Opening Reception at M&M 2006. This will be a good opportunity for Council to introduce themselves to the student membership.

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The FOM FIG is having a workshop on Saturday before M&M 06 meeting. It was approved to allow them to place an ad in Microscopy Today and to post news on their website.

18. INTERNATIONAL (Dempere/Smith)

Written report reviewed.

President Jerome will meet with Amelia Dempere in March to discuss relations with

Portuguese Society and Brazilian Societies.

19. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (N. Zaluzec)

Written report reviewed.

20. LOCAL AFFILIATED SOCIETIES (Ross)

[No report for 2005 - See New Business for 2006 comments.]

21. LEGAL LIAISON (Ingram/ Jerome)

Written report reviewed; no action required.

22. MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS (Fischione/O'Keefe)

[No report]

Megabooth (Lloyd)

Written report reviewed.

Upon a MOTION duly carried, request to purchase a $1200 permanent Triangular Banner (4' x 12' per side) for the Megabooth is approved.

23.MEMBERSHIP (Killius)

Written report reviewed.

Upon a MOTION duly carried, 81 new members since 7/1/05 were approved.

Killius recommended that the bylaws need to be updated and cited 3 areas that need changes to reflect current practices and to have criteria for approval or declining membership.

24. PLACEMENT (Lloyd/Mackenzie)

Written report reviewed; no action required.

25. PUBLIC POLICY (Ingram/Seraphin)

Written report reviewed; no action required.

26. PUBLICATIONS (Gronsky/Burke)

Gronsky reported that there are now 8 societies in affiliation with Microscopy and Microanalysis and that MAM ranks third among microscopy journals. There have been discussions with the Microscopy Today editor for a new agreement and the mortgage for the magazine clears in 2006. The book series has been approved by Cambridge.

a) Microscopy and Microanalysis - editor-in-chief written report reviewed; no action taken.

Proceedings - no report

EXPO - no report

b) Microscopy Today - editor report reviewed; no action required.

27. SUSTAINING MEMBERS (Bode/O'Keefe)

Written report reviewed.

Upon a MOTION duly carried, use of the MSA logo on Sustaining Member web sites is approved provided signed agreements on the use of the logo are secured prior to issuance.

28. TECHNOLOGISTS' FORUM (Woodward/Ross)

Written report reviewed; no action required.

[Meeting adjourned at 4:15 for a tour of the Memphis Convention Center- meeting reconvened Sunday, January 29 at 8:00 am]

29. INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR MICROSCOPY (IFSM) (Carter)

Motion not carried, with 2 abstentions, to contact IFSM with an offer to change the M&M 2010 dates to give a greater time space between M&M 2010 and ICM 2010

Upon a MOTION duly carried, there will be no bid for ICM 2010.

MSA representatives to ICM-2006 in Sapporo, Japan will be Dave Smith, Mike Marko, and Paul Kotula. A fourth representative is yet to be appointed.

30. STRATEGIC PLANNING

Chris McKeachie of Bostrom Corporation recommended that Council consider the purposes and goals of the Society and decide on what goals and objectives will take priority. After the main goals are articulated (where you are now, where you want to be), the IT staff at Bostrom could help translate and support movement of the web redesign effort and the overall marketing and branding of the Society; and give guidance and suggest policy about how to disseminate that information using a content management system. Right now it is not organized for visitors to easily access.

Strategic Plan-

There was considerable discussion on the overall strategies and several ideas were presented as to how to approach the planning and design in cooperation with the marketing arm of the Society.

The following is a list of sections to be considered during web redesign:

For members, (for Council, for Committee)

For Sustaining Members

For Exhibitors

MSA web site at the top of microscopy search engine lists

Meetings

Calendar

New Visitors

Committees

Member Recruitment

Image Bank

Education

History

Awards

Finances

Bylaws

Certification

Webcasts

Popcasts

Blogs

International

Students

Local Affiliates

Council

Publications

FIGs

Facilities Dir

Speaker Resource

Member Demographics

Public Policy/Relations

Job/Placement

Abstracts Search

Best Practices, e.g. Digital Imaging

Nanotechnology

Scholarships

Archives

News

Videos

Technical Protocols

Three main areas were identified, including but not limited to:

1) Attracting new members, especially students

2) Information flow within the society

3) Information to the outside world that MSA is a

scientific, professional society -showcasing the MSA people and their pictures

President Jerome appointed an ad hoc committee to collaborate and to start on the web redesign including Nestor Zaluzec, Dave Piston, Jay Jerome, Jeanette Killius and Grace Burke, Bev Maleeff, Paul Fischione and Michael O'Keefe. This group will work closely with Bostrom Marketing and IT staff and will oversee the project.

Bob Price chaired an ad hoc Sustaining Members Committee to address vendor issues and ideas. Many were presented here. Price was appointed to work with Andree Kraker, Paul Fischione, Ron Anderson, and Michael O'Keefe to discuss adding exhibitor information to the C4P, suggesting program changes and improving exhibitor/MSA relations.

David Smith was appointed to chair an ad hoc committee of past, present and future Program Chairs, Jay Jerome and Michael O'Keefe to investigate ways to identify new speakers for the program.

Bob Price made a presentation about how to increase exhibit floor traffic, written report reviewed.

Bill Gunning was appointed to head an ad hoc committee with the Marketing and Communications chair and the Membership Chair to determine how to increase traffic on the Exhibit Floor and attendance at the meeting.

Michael O'Keefe was appointed to head an ad hoc committee to study the area of Nanotechnology to bring the Society and Program up-to-date with this research area.

Other suggestions were offered as to other means of promoting the society, such as linking MSA through Sustaining Members' websites.

31. OLD BUSINESS

None

32. NEW BUSINESS

Upon a MOTION duly carried, the Southeastern Microscopy Society (SEM) application for $1500 for special meeting March 29-April 1, 2006 is approved.

33. ADJOURNMENT

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 1:15 pm.

[Subsequent Council Action February 24, 2006 by unanimous electronic vote]

Upon a MOTION duly carried, four complimentary 2006 memberships have been approved for developing countries.

Danay R. Dupeyron Martell, M.S.

Laboratorio de Polimeros

Instituto de Materiales y Reactivos

Universidad de La Habana

Ismeli Alfonso Lopez, M.S.

Instituto de Investigaciones Metalurgicas

Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo

Lilia Lorena Can Itza

Centro de Investigacion Cientifica de Yucatan

Unidad de Recursos Naturales

Lyda Patricia Mosquera Sanchez

Unidad de Microscopia Electronica

Universidad del Cauca

[Subsequent Council Action March 23, 2006 by unanimous electronic vote]

Upon a MOTION duly carried, the following 2006 Undergraduate Research Scholarships are approved at $3,000 each.

Melissa Anderson, Mc Gill University, Characterization of Nanocomposites using Electron Microscopy (copper coated carbon nanotubes)
Supervisor:  Dr. Raynald Gauvin, Department of Mining, Metals, and Materials Engineering

John Biebelhausen, University of Arizona, An Exploration of the Role of Epidermal and Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor Activation in Development of the Olfactory Pathway of Drosophila melanogaster.
Supervisor:  Dr. Leslie Tolbert, Arizona Research Laboratories, Division of Neurobiology

Alexander Epstein, Princeton University, Screw Dislocations in Abalone Shell Nacre
Supervisor: Dr. Nan Yao, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials

APPENDIX 1

MSA Focused Interest Groups (FIG)

Guidelines

Approved By MSA Council 29 July 2005

Amended and Approved 4 August 2005

Amended and Approved 28 January 2006

1. Definition

a. A Focused Interest Group (FIG) is a group of MSA members who have organized, with the approval of MSA Council, to promote a specific discipline relevant to microscopy or microanalysis.

2. Membership

a. FIG members must be paid-up MSA members.

b. Ten (10) MSA members are required to initiate or maintain a FIG.

c. If any individual FIG membership decreases to less than 10 for 2 consecutive years, the FIG will be considered dissolved.

d. Requests to form or reinitiate a FIG must be submitted in writing to the FIG Chair no less than one (1) month prior to a scheduled meeting of MSA Council. Requests will be presented by the FIG Chair to MSA Council for approval. Late requests may be postponed until the subsequent Council meeting.

e. MSA Council reserves the right to dissolve a FIG for reasons including, but not limited to, fiscal irresponsibility, scientific misconduct or having less than the minimum required number of members as specified above.

f. FIG members are required to pay FIG dues in the amount of $10 per annum, in addition to annual MSA dues. These dues shall be billed in the MSA dues notice.

S Per current MSA practice, dues paid prior to August 1 in any calendar year shall be current through December 31 of that year. Dues paid after August 1 in any calendar year shall be current through December 31 of the following year.

g. FIG dues will be maintained by the MSA Business Office as a separate line item in the FIG budget. If a FIG is dissolved, its dues will remain in the FIG budget and redistributed at the discretion of the FIG Chair.

3. Administration

a. The first FIG Chair shall be appointed by MSA Council to a 3-year term of office, starting on January 1 of Year 1 and ending on December 31 of Year 3.

b. His/her successor(s) shall be chosen by a majority of FIG Leaders from amongst their number, during the FIG Business Meeting held at M&M in Year 3 of the current FIG Chair's term. Each FIG should be represented at the meeting, either by its Leader or a designated proxy. If less than two-thirds of the FIGs are represented at the business meeting, the election shall take place by electronic ballot and a simple majority of ballots received shall determine the FIG Chair.

c. The FIG Chair shall serve on the M&M Program Committee.

d. The FIG Chair is responsible for communications, budget and report submissions to MSA Council, and fiscal management.

e. The FIG Chair shall confer with the MSA Council FIG liaison and any other relevant MSA officials on issues that involve non-M&M activities. In addition, the M&M Program Chair shall be consulted on issues that involve the M&M scientific program and related functions.

f. The FIG Chair shall conduct a business meeting at M&M with all FIG Leaders present.

g. Each individual FIG shall have a duly elected Leader who shall serve a 2-year term. At the end of his/her term, the FIG Leader will be ineligible to hold any FIG office for a period of 2 years. In addition, each FIG will have a duly elected Leader-elect who will serve a 2-year term and then assume the office of FIG Leader. Each FIG will also have a duly elected Secretary/Treasurer who will serve a 2-year term. All terms of office shall be from January 1 of the year following the election (year N) to December 31 of the next year (year N+1).

h. All candidates for election to any FIG Office (Leader, Leader-Elect, Secretary/Treasurer) must be current dues-paying members of both MSA and the FIG for which they seek office at the time of the election. Any question that a candidate is a member in good standing will be resolved by the FIG Chair in consultation with the Business Office.

i. No individual shall succeed him/herself in any office, but may seek the office again after rotating off for a term.

j. Each FIG must have an annual business meeting attended by a quorum of dues-paying members. A quorum shall be defined as one-third of the membership or a minimum of 7 members, whichever is larger. All FIG members and the FIG Chair must be notified of the time and location of the annual business meeting in writing at least 30 days prior to that meeting.

k. Elections shall be held at the FIG's business meeting at M&M. A quorum of dues-paying FIG members shall be required to conduct the election. If no quorum is present, an electronic ballot may be cast within 30 days of the close of M&M. A simple majority is required to fill any position.

l. Election results shall be delivered in writing to the FIG Chair within 10 business days after the election.

4. Funding

a. FIG dues shall be collected as stated above.

b. Dues may be used for other than M&M Program-related activities, including but not limited to: food and non-alcoholic beverages for business meetings; website creation and maintenance; telephone, fax and photocopying; support for social events held during M&M; support for specialty meetings/workshops other than at M&M. Use of the dues for a specific purpose must be requested using the FIG Activity Request Form and approved in advance by the FIG Chair.

c. Dues may not be used for M&M scientific program activities, including but not limited to: symposium or roundtable funding; travel support for FIG members or external speakers. These funds shall only come from the Program Chair's budget.

d. If a FIG is dissolved for any reason, its funds will revert to the FIG budget and will be redistributed at the discretion of the FIG Chair.

5. Functions

a. All requests for functions (M&M symposium, business meeting, special meeting/workshop, social event) shall be made in writing to the FIG Chair using a FIG Activity Request Form.

b. Organization of a scientific symposium or roundtable at M&M requires prior consent of the FIG Chair, MSA Council liaison and Program Chair. A symposium or roundtable request will not be granted or funded automatically, but at the discretion of the Program Chair. FIG-sponsored symposia and roundtables are considered no different than any other session, and shall operate under the same guidelines as all other symposia (fundraising, scheduling, speaker support, etc.)

c. Each FIG is encouraged to propose a symposium for the Microscopy & Microanalysis meeting using the FIG Activity Request Form. Approval of the proposal is at the discretion of the Program Chair.

d. Each FIG, regardless of whether or not it sponsors a scientific session, shall be entitled to space to hold a business meeting at M&M each year. Space shall be provided in the convention center if available, or at an alternate facility within proximity of the convention center.

e. Pre-M&M workshops or short courses may be requested using the FIG Activity Request Form for consideration by the FIG Chair, MSA Council liaison, Program Chair and Education Committee Chair. Requests will not be granted or funded automatically, but at the discretion of the Program Chair and the Education Committee Chair. Any approved pre-meeting activities shall be coordinated in consultation with the Education Committee Liaison for Pre-meeting Activities.

f. Non-M&M related special meetings or workshops may be requested using the FIG Activity Request Form. Such meetings or workshops must be approved by the full MSA Council. MSA may provide up to $1000 support through the FIG budget for these meetings. Examples of these "special" meetings include a symposium of national or international scope, a joint meeting of two or more FIGs, or a workshop built around an emerging topic of microscopy or microanalysis-related scientific studies. Approval for support must come from the FIG Chair and the MSA Council. Additional fundraising must be coordinated through the MSA President and FIG Chair. Participating FIGs which have received this support during the previous two years will not be eligible.

S Application for funding for a special meeting or workshop must include: a completed FIG Activity Request Form; a meeting program as complete as possible; and a complete budget for the meeting.

g. Each FIG may sponsor a website or e-newsletter in conjunction with the MSA website to promote dissemination of information relevant to its members and MSA membership in general.

h. Each FIG will be given space (typically 1-2 paragraphs maximum) in the M&M Expo to promote its activities at M&M. All advertising must be submitted in writing to the FIG Chair.

i. Each FIG can promote its activities in Microscopy Today as space permits.