Presentations covering a wide variety of topics, social networking, and an awards presentation were just a few of the happenings that took place at the FLC Northeast Region's fall 2009 meeting. The three-day event, which was held at New Jersey's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) September 14-16, kicked off with an evening reception that allowed attendees to relax with their fellow technology transfer professionals.

The first full day of the meeting started with a formal welcome to Princeton University, home of PPPL, and continued throughout the morning with informative discussions emphasizing different aspects of homeland security, including cybercrime awareness, security preparedness, and rapid response. The afternoon session focused on technologies successfully developed at federal laboratories in the Region, including the 2009 FLC Excellence in Technology Transfer winner, the Miniature Integrated Nuclear Detector System (MINDS), which was invented at PPPL.

The second and final day featured the presentation of the 2009 Northeast Regional awards, and installation of Lewis Meixler of PPPL as the new Regional Coordinator and Michael Furey of Brookhaven National Laboratory as Deputy Regional Coordinator. A tour of PPPL served as the final event of the conference.

Proceedings of the meeting and a photo gallery are available for viewing at www.flcnortheast.org.