The Presidents of the sponsoring societies will offer special events throughout the week. These events will include keynote speakers and awards for various competitions such as the student Presidential Scholarships, Diatome Award, MSA Traveling Poster Awards and MAS Distinguished Scholar Awards. All attendees are strongly encouraged to attend these events to congratulate award winners and listen to the keynote presentations. Times for all events will be announced in the meeting Expo.

The winner of the IMS Henry Clifton Sorby Award will be announced in the Spring of 2006. The prize will be awarded and the winner will present a lecture on the morning of Monday, July 31 in advance of the Metallographics Techniques and Applications Symposium. Please check the meeting schedule for the exact time and location of this event that will honor the outstanding achievements of the awardee.

As at M&M-2006, we will have an exhibit of crystal photographs by T.H. Saunders. The images will be for sale with 100% of the net proceeds donated to the MSA Undergraduate Scholarship Fund. The main display of images will be in the exhibit area. Selected images will also be on view at the Microscopy Today desk in the society "Megabooth" where all of the images may be purchased.

The computer workshop and software exchange will be operating throughout the Meeting and will be located on the Exhibit floor adjacent to the society information booth. Participants can view and discuss the more than 500 Mbytes of data, programs, general information and images available in the public domain software library. A limited number of Mac and PC systems will be available for viewing, discussing and copying programs. In addition, a number of connections to the Internet are planned and will be available to all conference attendees to provide access to Email and WWW services. This will be contingent upon availability of systems with respect to any other workshop or meeting demonstrations and the arrangements with a local Internet Service Provider. The Workshop and Internet Cafe will only be available during normal Exhibit hours.

Signup sheets with titles and descriptions are at the MSA Education table in the MSA Mega Booth. When you sign up you will be issued a ticket, which you will need to renter the Hall after it is closed. Details of these tutorials will be listed approximately 1 month before the meeting and will be posted on the Meeting News WWW page.