Thanks to all for an enthusiastic Annual General Meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota! The Americas Section had 37 attendees, 10 presenters and acquired 11 new members!

See the EVENTS PAGE for the Technical Program, the presentations from our Technical Session, the AGM Administrative Session and photos of a lovely dinner cruise on the St. Croix River.

Special thanks to our member companies for donations to defray the costs associated with the meeting (3M and Scott Safety), as well as to Bill Newcomb, Geoff Betsinger and Amy Quiring for coordinating a successful meeting!

ISRP Announces a Student Research Competition

Two awards are available for both a full paper preparation or an abstract and presentation; the full paper award includes travel and lodging at the conference. The abstract and presentation award includes admission to the conference.

For the 2012 Student Research Award, the judges will give special consideration to analysis using the NIOSH anthropometric data set, but any topic in respiratory protection is eligible.

See the Anthropometrics Research Award Flyer for more information. A webinar with NIOSH was held on December 8, 2011 to review background information about the raw data, analysis conducted to date, and potential opportunities for analysis. To obtain copies of the slides, register for the competition, and access the data please contact eyi0@cdc.gov.

The venue and dates have now been established for the next ISRP conference in 2012, and the Americas Section is at the helm.