From the Editor Ten-Year Partnership


With this issue Cambridge University Press completes ten years of publishing Microscopy


Today. Over the last decade this magazine has grown in subscriptions, participated in conferences worldwide, and sponsored two international competitions: one dealing with microscopy innova- tions and the other with exceptional micrographs. To celebrate this anniversary, the Press has created a digital compendium of 60 concise reviews by Stephen Carmichael, freely available at the Microscopy Today website (click on article collections). Te cover of this issue shows the 25 finalists of the 2019 Microscopy Today Micrograph


Awards competition. Tere are three categories: Published images (column 1), Open category for unpublished images (columns 2, 3, and 4), and Video images (column 5). Finalist micrographs must have scientific relevance, but the primary criteria are visual impact, artistic merit, and how it would look on a wall. Te selection of these finalists was blind, in that the judges did not know the identity or affiliation of the submitters. Images were submitted from 24 US states and 16 other countries. Te public is invited to vote for the People’s Choice Award by viewing finalist images in the gallery at the following website: https://www.microscopy.org/awards/micrograph_gallery. cfm. Chief Micrograph Judge Robert Simmons will announce all the prize winners on Wednesday of the M&M meeting in Portland, OR. I thank celebrity judge David Scharf and our senior editors who constituted our judging panel for this inaugural micrograph competition. Te Microscopy Today Innovation Awards competition is also in its tenth year. Tus, by


the Portland M&M meeting, this magazine in collaboration with Cambridge University Press will have presented 100 awards for innovations in all types of microscopy and microanalysis. I believe our field is quite extraordinary in that significant advances are made every few years in nearly every type of microscopy. Chief Innovations Judge Tom Kelly will present these awards on Wednesday of M&M. Finally, a new Cambridge Core website for Microscopy Today (MTO) has been designed, and


it includes three new article collections from past issues: Carmichael’s Concise Reviews (men- tioned above), Education Articles, and Innovations Articles describing each honored innovation. Te compendium of Carmichael’s reviews is especially noteworthy. For each of his reviews Carmi- chael identifies a paper that describes a problem in science which has been solved by microscopy. Tis is followed by a brief description of how the work was accomplished. Te searching and find- ing of papers for these reviews is particularly impressive considering the word “microscopy” oſten does not appear in the paper’s title or in the abstract. Te Microscopy Society of America and the editorial staff and board of Microscopy Today thank Cambridge University Press for a most fruitful partnership.


Charles Lyman Editor-in-Chief


Publication Objective: to provide information of interest to microscopists.


Microscopy Today is a controlled-circulation trade magazine owned by the Microscopy Society of America that is published six times a year in the odd months. Editorial coverage spans all microscopy techniques including light microscopy, scanning probe microscopy, electron microscopy, ion-beam techniques, and the wide range of microanalytical methods. Readers and authors come from both the life sciences and the physical sciences. The typical length of an article is about 2,000 words plus figures and tables; feature articles are longer. Interested authors should consult “Instructions for Contributors” on the Microscopy Today website: www.microscopy-today.com.


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Editorial Staff Charles E. Lyman, Editor-in-Chief


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Editorial Board Nasim Alem, Penn State University Arlan Benscoter, Lehigh University John Bozzola, Southern Illinois University Peter Crozier, Arizona State University Vinayak Dravid, Northwestern University David Grubb, Cornell University Bryan Huey, University of Connecticut Heather Lowers, U.S. Geological Survey John Mackenzie, North Carolina State Univ. Paul Maddox, U. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill Ania Majewska, U. Rochester Med School Joseph Michael, Sandia National Labs Caroline Miller, Indiana University Brian M. Patterson, Los Alamos National Lab John Reffner, John Jay College, SUNY Ian Robertson, University of Wisconsin Phillip Russell, Appalachian State University Bradley Thiel, SUNY Polytechnic Institute Simon Watkins, University of Pittsburgh Cynthia Zeissler, Nat. Inst. of Stds. and Tech. (NIST)


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