Membership
Student Membership
Annual Dues: $4.00
Student members are full-time students at one of the state's institutions of higher education. Student members may hold elected office in the society. The society provides opportunities for and encourages students to present their microscopy, imaging and/or microanalysis related research at our annual meeting. In previous years this has included a contest, with a monetary prize, to the best poster and/or platform presentation in the biological, and in the physical sciences. In previous years travel awards have been offered to assist out-of-town students in attending the annual meeting. Student members receive the biannual newsletter and may attend the annual meeting at the lowest possible registration fee (the annual meeting has been free of charge for several years).
Regular Membership
Annual Dues: $10.00
Regular members are individuals that have an interest in microscopy, imaging and/or microanalysis. Regular members may hold elected office in the society. Regular members receive the biannual newsletter and may attend the annual meeting at the lowest possible registration fee (the annual meeting has been free of charge for several years).
Corporate Membership
Annual Dues: $60.00 - $2,000.00
Corporate members are a valuable support for the society. Corporate members provide both financial and intellectual resources for this society. Corporate members have underwritten much or all of the costs of our past annual meetings as well as providing some of the invited presentations. Corporate members may not hold elected office in the society. There are four tiers of corporate membership available for information for each tier click here.
The benefits of corporate membership:
- A copy of the biannual newsletter and the option of having a second copy of the newsletter sent to another individual in the same company.
- The opportunity to put a copy of your corporate business card in the biannual newsletter.
- The opportunity to include commercial fliers in the biannual newsletter (some mailing charges may apply, contact the society secretary for more information).
- The opportunity to announce significant events (changes in local representatives, local product demonstrations, seminars) via the biannual newsletter.
- The opportunity to have your product information displayed on our literature table at the annual meeting (contact the society secretary for information on dates and mailing address).
- Corporate members are welcome at all our annual meetings and seminars. If there is a registration fee for attending the meeting, corporate members will pay the same fee as regular members (due to the financial underwriting of corporate members, a fee for our annual meeting has not been necessary for several years).
- Corporate members have the opportunity to purchase a table at our annual meeting for product demonstration. In addition, corporate members have sponsored coffee breaks, student presentation awards and travel awards in their company's name. We are grateful for the corporate members' support. Contact the society President or the Secretary for pricing information.
