The VPM software exceeded 300 downloads in the second half of 2014. In addition to being used in EPS, it has been adopted at The University of New England as a novel approach to teaching petrology to external students. Following a presentation at the Australasian Universities Geoscience Educators Network (AUGEN) meeting in Melbourne (January 2015), other universities have indicated they will introduce the software into their undergraduate programs in 2015. The software, developed in EPS by Nathan Daczko was published in the Australian Journal of Earth Sciences: Tetley, M.G. and Daczko, N.R., 2014. Virtual Petrographic Microscope: A multi-platform education and research software tool to analyse rock thin sections. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 61, 631-637. The website can be viewed at http://eps.mq.edu.au/vpm/
