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Lab manager wins electron microscopy image contest

Eric Formo

Eric Formo, laboratory manager of the Core Electron Microscopy Facility, is the grant prize winner of the Thermo Fisher Scientific 2017 Electron Microscopy Image Contest for his image of Micrometeorites taken via Scanning Electron Microscopy. 

In addition, he won a 2018 Microscopy and Microanalysis Society Professional Technical Staff Award for his research “Utilizing Conventional and In-Situ Electron Microscopy to Gain Insights Into the Release of Silver Nanomaterials in Aquatic Ecosystems.”