The Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) Award for Outstanding Achievements will be presented to Peter de Boves Harrington on Tuesday, November 19.

The Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Fields of Analytical Chemistry will be presented to Joel M. Harris at EAS 2019 on Wednesday, November 20.

The Society for Applied Spectroscopy’s (SAS) Barbara Stull Graduate Student Award was presented to two students this year: Santosh Paidi of Johns Hopkins University and Saumya Tiwari of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

Four student researchers were presented with the Society for Applied Spectroscopy’s (SAS) Atomic Technical Section Student Award at SciX 2019.

Nowadays, Raman spectroscopy can be applied to many fields where non-destructive chemical analysis and microscopic imaging needs to be provided rapidly. It can analyze many states of matter such as solid, liquid, gases, and even gels and slurries. It is used in a variety of applications such as pharmaceutical, cosmetic, material, semiconductor, and life science industries and research.

The Coblentz Society will offer a Speed Mentoring event at the Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) on Monday, November 18, at 11:45 in the third floor mezzanine.

Spectroscopy’s Emerging Leader in Molecular Spectroscopy Award will be presented to Ishan Barman, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University on Monday, October 14, at SciX 2019 at the Palm Springs Convention Center in California.

The Charles Mann Award for Applied Raman Spectroscopy will be presented to Karen Faulds on Tuesday, October 15, at the SciX 2019 conference in Palm Springs, California.

Christy Haynes, the Elmore H. Northey Professor of Chemistry at the University of Minnesota, will receive the 2018 RSC Theophilus Redwood Award at SciX 2019 at the Palm Springs Convention Center in California.

S. Michael Angel, a professor of chemistry at the University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina), will be presented with the Lester W. Strock Award on Tuesday, October 14, at SciX 2019, in Palm Springs, California.

Timothy J. Johnson, a senior research scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), will receive the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) William F. Meggers Award on Thursday, October 17, at the SciX 2019 conference in Palm Springs, California.

Shawn (Xiaoyun) Chen will be presented with the Coblentz Society Craver Award at SciX 2019 on Thursday, October 17, in Palm Springs, California.

Shachi Mittal and Erika Portero are the 2019 recipients of the FACSS Thomas Hirschfeld Scholar Awards.

Ewelina Mistek is the 2019 winner of the FACSS Student Award, which will be presented to her on Sunday, October 13, at the SciX 2019 conference, in Palm Springs, California.

A cornerstone-laying ceremony took place in August in celebration of Delta Optical Thin Film’s new facilities, located in DTU Science Park in Hørsholm, Denmark. The larger facility became necessary when the company outgrew its current facilities, both in terms of production and office space.

The Coblentz Society and the Society of Applied Spectroscopy are co-hosting a Speed Mentoring event at SciX, at the Palm Springs Convention Center in California, on Monday, October 14.

Jacob T. Shelley, the Alan Paul Schulz Career Development Professor of Chemistry at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has won the 2020 Emerging Leader in Atomic Spectroscopy Award, which is presented by Spectroscopy magazine. Shelley’s work currently focuses on the development of plasma-based tools for mass spectrometry, to enable rapid and sensitive detection and identification of a broad range of analytes from complex matrices.

On July 13, 2019, from 5 pm to 8 pm, the New York–New Jersey Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) organization celebrated their student award winners at its annual banquet, held at Rutgers State University in the new Chemistry and Chemical Biology building in Piscataway, New Jersey. This year the group celebrated the accomplishments of three winners.

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The Biemann Medal was awarded to Sarah Trimpin at the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) conference on Tuesday, June 4, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Trimpin is a professor of chemistry at Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan).

Ishan Barman, PhD, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University, has won the 2019 Emerging Leader in Molecular Spectroscopy Award, which is presented by Spectroscopy magazine. This annual award recognizes the achievements and aspirations of a talented young molecular spectroscopist, selected by an independent scientific committee. The award will be presented to Barman at the SciX 2019 conference in October, where he will give a plenary lecture and be honored in an award symposium.

The Association of British Spectroscopists (ABS) Trust invites applications for the 2020 Gordon Kirkbright Bursary and the 2020 Edward Steers Bursary.

The 2019 Spectroscopy salary and employment survey extracted from calendar year 2018 trends shows an unexpected and marked decrease in salaries from previous survey years.

The Opioid Detection Challenge, launched by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in collaboration with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), invites innovators to submit novel plans for rapid, nonintrusive detection tools that will help find illicit opioids being trafficked into the United States through international mail.

Bruker Corporation (Billerica, Massachusetts) has acquired Arxspan LLC, a provider of cloud-based scientific software and workflow solutions based in Southborough, Massachusetts.

Yukihiro Ozaki, a former Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the School of Science and Technology at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan, was presented with the Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award during a symposium on March 20 at Pittcon 2019 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Coblentz Society Williams-Wright Award was presented to Wolfgang Petrich of Roche Diabetes Care GmbH and Heidelberg University, on March 19, at Pittcon 2019, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

This acquisition of the ASI product line expands Applied Spectra’s product portfolio into excimer laser ablation and helium thermochronology instrumentation.