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Pete Diaczuk of John Jay College of Criminal Justice gave a recollection at EAS 2023 of a case he worked on in Manhattan involving a victim fatally shot, incomplete ballistic evidence, and the wrong gun recovered at the scene.

At the Eastern Analytical Symposium in Princeton, New Jersey, John McLean shared his thoughts about his career in mass spectrometry.

At the Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) in Plainsboro, New Jersey, Spectroscopy sat down with Robert Kennedy to discuss his research and career in analytical chemistry.

At the Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) in Plainsboro, New Jersey, Spectroscopy sat down with Curtis Marcott to discuss his research and career in spectroscopy.

Curtis Marcott, a senior partner at Light Light Solutions, a spectroscopic consulting firm based in Athens, Georgia, has been named the winner of the NY/NJ Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy Gold Medal Award.

Award recipient John McLean of Vanderbilt University said hybrid techniques do not exist purely as combinations of letters, slashes, and hyphens—they have been built on the shoulders of decades’ worth of analysis intended to refine and simplify workflow.

John A. McLean, Stevenson Professor of Chemistry and Chair of the Department of Chemistry, Associate Provost for Graduate Education, and Director of the Center for Innovative Technologies at Vanderbilt University, has been named the winner of the 2023 EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in Mass Spectrometry.

Getting your finances in order ensures you can be prepared for the unexpected, said Tarshae Drummond, a lab manager and research technician at Fayetteville State University.

John H. Kalivas, a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Idaho State University, has been named the winner of the 2023 EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in Chemometrics.

At the 2023 Gulf Coast Conference, Spectroscopy spoke with Kevin Schug of the University of Texas at Arlington, about predicting gas phase vacuum ultraviolet spectra using machine learning. This interview was one of four conducted live at GCC 2023.

At the 2023 Gulf Coast Conference, Spectroscopy spoke with Elena Hagemann of Metrohm USA, about spectroscopy in relation to petrochemicals. This interview was one of four conducted live at GCC 2023.

A collection of our video interviews from SciX 2023 are archived here.

This year’s conference included 12 tracks with sessions highlighting everything from mail security to art analysis and AI.

Andrew Schmitz, an application scientist at ThermoFisher Scientific, held a workshop at the Gulf Coast Conference in Galveston, Texas, focused on real-time lubricant analysis.

At SciX, Dmitri Kurouski of Texas A&M University will be recognized as the 2023 Spectroscopy Emerging Leader in Molecular Spectroscopy Award recipient. Here's a summary of the award session.

At SciX, Johannes Pedarnig of Johannes Kepler University will be recognized as the 2023 SAS and Applied Spectroscopy William F. Meggers Award recipient. Here's a summary of the award session.

FDA currently has nine satellite laboratory facilities throughout the country, which have been able to support the prevention of 550,689 products entering the country.

At the SciX Conference in Sparks, Nevada, Spectroscopy magazine sat down with Mathew Horrocks of the University of Edinburgh to discuss his research developing and using single-molecule and super-resolution microscopy techniques to study amyloid oligomers and their commonality regarding a variety of neurodegenerative disorders.

At SciX 2023, Robbyn K. Anand will receive the Mid-Career Award from the AES (Electrophoresis Society). Here’s a summary of the award session.

At SciX2023, Maria Montes-Bayón received the Lester W. Strock Award from the New England Society for Applied Spectroscopy. Here’s a summary of the award session.

At the SciX Conference in Sparks, Nevada, Spectroscopy magazine sat down with Karen Esmonde-White of Endress+Hauser to talk about her career transition and how Raman spectroscopy has evolved over the years.

Dennis Hore presented his team’s research on silicone insulators used in the electrical grid and their responses to electrical, chemical, and thermal stress.

Anastasia Rousaki and her team at Ghent University in Belgium are utilizing advanced Raman spectroscopy techniques, including mobile non-invasive methods, to analyze the composition of art from various historical periods, from prehistoric rock art paintings in Patagonia to 19th to 20th century Greek paintings and 21st-century murals in Reggio Emilia, providing insights for art preservation and historical understanding.

On Wednesday October 11th from 8:30–10:10 am, an oral symposium on international mail security will take place. We preview this session here.

In the Chemometrics in Food and Agriculture oral symposia today at SciX 2023, Barry Lavine of Oklahoma State University delivered a talk titled, “Authentication of Edible Oils Using an Infrared Spectral Library and Digital Sample Sets for Calibrated and Uncalibrated Adulterants.” Here is a brief reflection of his talk.

Popp and his team are focused on translating Raman spectroscopy for clinical applications.

At SciX 2023 in Sparks, Nevada, Alexander Gundlach-Graham from Iowa State University delivered a groundbreaking talk on the origins of noise in single-particle ICP-TOF-MS data and its impact on particle analysis accuracy. His presentation unveiled a promising Monte Carlo simulation approach to better understand and mitigate signal variability in this cutting-edge analytical technique.

During a talk at SciX, Rohit Bhargava outlined the evolution of Fourier transformation infrared spectroscopy and how it could be used as a method for treating rare diseases like cancer.