The Infrared and Raman Discussion Group (IRDG) Chalmers and Dent Student Travel Award will be presented to Matthew Berry at SciX 2021, taking place in Providence, Rhode Island, September 26–October 1.

Doug Gilman and Greg Klunder will receive the 2021 FACSS Distinguished Service Award at SciX 2021, taking place September 26–October 1, in Providence, Rhode Island.

Grant J. Myres and Nicolás Morato will receive the Tomas Hirschfeld Scholar Award at SciX 2021, taking place September 26–October 1, in Providence, Rhode Island.

The Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) Atomic Section Student Award honors undergraduate or graduate student SAS members who have excelled in atomic spectroscopy.

The 2021 recipient of the FACSS Student award is Vanessa Cupil-Garcia, a fourth-year PhD candidate in Ruan Vo-Dinh’s group in the Department of Chemistry at Duke University (Durham, North Carolina).

To encourage undergraduate student research in spectroscopy, the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) is offering a limited number of travel awards of up to $300 per student to attend the SAS National Meeting at SciX 2021 in Providence, RI.

The guidance aids in the development, validation, and use of near infrared-based analytical procedures.

A team of researchers at the University of Brighton in England used a combination of geochemical and statistical approaches to determine where Stonehenge’s sarsen (silcrete) megalith stones came from.

Spectroscopy’s annual product review has become a go-to source for keeping up with the latest spectroscopy instruments, components, accessories, and software. In it, you can find everything that has been launched over the past 12 months, including at the most recent Pittcon event. Here, we offer highlights of the 2021 review, which appeared in our May issue, featuring new products in the atomic, Raman, and infrared (IR) categories of spectroscopy.

The 2021 Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) Young Investigator Award will be presented to Jacob Shelley at the EAS Symposium taking place November 15–17, 2021, in Plainsboro, New Jersey.

L. Scott Ramos will receive the 2021 Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) Award for Outstanding Achievements in Chemometrics at the EAS Symposium taking place November 15–17, 2021, in Plainsboro, New Jersey.

Bhavya Sharma, PhD, an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has won the 2021 Emerging Leader in Molecular Spectroscopy Award, which is presented by Spectroscopy magazine.

Joseph A. Loo will be presented with the 2021 Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) Award for Outstanding Achievements in Mass Spectrometry at the EAS Symposium taking place November 15–17, 2021, in Plainsboro, New Jersey.

The 2021 Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Fields of Analytical Chemistry will be presented to Kenneth S. Suslick at the EAS Symposium, taking place November 15–17, 2021, in Plainsboro, New Jersey.

Songi Han of the University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) has won the 2021 Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) Award for Outstanding Achievements in Magnetic Resonance.

PerkinElmer, of Waltham, Massachusetts has acquired ES Industries, of West Berlin, New Jersey.

The Young Fluorescence Investigator Award was presented to Luca Lanzano at the Biophysical Society virtual event, BPS 2021, in February.

The talk will take place during their online meeting on March 18, 2021 at 12:00 noon EST.

We report on overall salary trends and how they compare to past years. We also look beyond the numbers to focus on broader trends of workplace satisfaction and career attitudes for spectroscopists.

Michael J. Hennessy Jr., president and CEO of MJH Life Sciences™, parent company to Spectroscopy, was named to MM&M’s second annual 40 Under 40 list.

The Coblentz Society will present the award to Ian R. Lewis during the virtual Pittcon conference taking place March 6–10, 2021.

The meeting will take place on Thursday, January 14 from 12:00–1:00 pm EST, hosted by guest speakers John Wasylyk and Debbie Peru.

The Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) and the SAS Atomic Technical Section is currently seeking nominations for the 2021 SAS Atomic Spectroscopy Student Award.

Spectroscopy magazine is seeking nominations for the Emerging Leader in Atomic Spectroscopy Award.

The New York Microscopical Society 2020 Ernst Abbe Award was presented to Brian J. Ford on November 17.