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The Oklahoma Microscopy Society is a local affiliate society of the Microscopy Society of America (MSA), the Microbeam Analysis Society (MAS) and the Oklahoma Academy of Science (OAS). The Society was founded as the Oklahoma Society for Electron Microscopy (Ok-SEM) in September 1977, becoming the 18th local affiliated society of MSA (then EMSA) and the 11th section of OAS. There are two scheduled meetings each year: (1) a technical meeting is held every fall in conjunction with the OAS and (2) a one- or two-day workshop is held every spring. Information about these meetings is located below.

An OMS membership form is available online in DOCX format or PDF format. A free reader for PDF files is at the Adobe web site. Membership in the Oklahoma Microscopy Society is available to anyone with an interest in microscopy. Corporate membership is $50, regular professional membership is $15 and student membership is $5 annually. Membership privileges include participation in society events, two newsletters/year and access to mailing lists. Advertisements are accepted from Corporate Members through the Secretary-Treasurer and Newsletter Editor (see Officers) and a free link to their WWW Corporate Home Page is provided.

The current OMS newsletter (Spring, 2013) is available online at this link (in PDF format). An archive of OMS newsletters is available at http://www.microscopy.ou.edu/oms-newsletters/.

2013 Spring Meeting:

The Oklahoma Microscopy Society (OMS) 35th Annual Spring Workshop will be held on Friday, April 12, 2013, from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm on the campus of the University of Oklahoma at the Stevenson Research and Technology Center just south of Highway 9 in Norman, Oklahoma. Talks will be given in The Core ... "When you’re tackling complex challenges, you need technological support that is simple to manage and simply state of the art" (see The Core website).

This year's topic is Multitasking in Multidimensions: 3D imaging and Analysis. The workshop will feature talks on scanning probe microscopy, confocal microscopy, 3D optical microscopy, and there will be afternoon tours of major microscopy facilities on campus. Click here for a printable online poster (in PDF format).

Kid's Night, Thursday, April 11, 2013 will precede the workshop from 5:00 to 6:30 pm in room 157 of George Lynn Cross Hall. Children will have an opportunity to operate one of two actual scanning electron microscopes (Hitachi TM-3000) using a sample of their own choosing as well as participating in some physics experiments. For more information, see the 2013 Kid's Night Flyer.

2012 Fall meeting:

The 2012 Fall Technical Meeting was held in conjunction with the 101st Annual Technical Meeting of the Oklahoma Academy of Science on Friday, November 9, 2012, at University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. OMS had a number of talks, keynote speakers and the competition for the 2012 Timpano Award for the best student presentation.

For this meeting, we also had three invited speakers:

  1. Michael Martinez – Forensic Scientist Supervisor at the Bexar county crime laboratory in San Antonio, Texas. He will talk about "Applications of Microscopy in Forensic Science."
  2. Kerry Magruder – Curator, History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries. He will talk about the "Early History of Microscopy."
  3. Elison B. Blancaflor - Plant Biology Division, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation. He will be talking about his experiences with gravitropism experiments in space, in a talk entitled "Tales of Discovery: Boldly Going Where Only a Few Mustard Plants Have Gone Before."

A listserv list is now available for all of the members at: OMS-L@lists.ou.edu, to the OMS Executive Board at: OMS-EXEC@lists.ou.edu, and to all of the OMS Corporate members at: OMS-CORP@lists.ou.edu.

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