Spring Meeting at Bruker

The NESM 2015 “Spring” meeting was held March 5th at the Bruker Optics building in Billerica, MA, during which the Cape got a foot of snow. Meeting registration coincided with brief tours of demonstration/training lab spaces that house SEM-EDS-EBSD, AFM, stylus profilometer, optical emission spectroscopy, Raman and IR microscopy systems. Read more…

Looking Forward

Dear Fellow Microscopists, Compared to some NESM members, I’m a bit of a newcomer.  The 2010 Fall Meeting at Carl Zeiss SMT was my first glimpse of the NESM family — a cozy group of brilliant scientists with a shared passion for very tiny things.  At the time, I didn’t Read more…

Heartbleed and NESM

What is Heartbleed? As many of you have likely heard, the internet was recently made aware of a major security flaw in a commonly used piece of software called OpenSSL. An oversight in the OpenSSL code allows hackers to harvest data stored in the RAM of web servers running the Read more…

Embracing Change

Dear Fellow Microscopists,  As your newly appointed 43rd president, it is with great pleasure that I welcome you all to another exciting year for microscopy in New England.  I am delighted to have the opportunity to update the membership on the status of our society and discuss some of the Read more…

Electron Microscopist Position @ Plum Island Animal Disease Center

Immediate Need:  Fellowship Description The U.S. Department of Homeland Security,  is seeking a motivated scientist, (post-master’s or post-baccalaureate) with a background in microscopy interested in conducting animal virology laboratory research aimed at developing novel strategies to control viral  Foreign Animal Disease threat (FMDV, ASFV, CSFV) . The position is with Read more…