The New York Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy is currently soliciting nominations for its 2009 Gold Medal Award.

Paul A. Wilks, Jr., died Saturday, october 11, 2008, at Dartmouth?Hitchcock Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, after a brief illness.

Emil Wolf has been named the winner of the 2008 Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award for his book Introduction to the Theory of Coherence and Polarization of Light.

Mostafa El-Sayed of the Georgia Institute of Technology was awarded the 2007 National Medal of Science for his work with nano-materials.

Inorganic Ventures has announced that the company is relocating its U.S. base of operations from Lakewood, New Jersey, to Christiansburg, Virginia.

Using principal component analysis, FOSS Analytical has shown that it is possible to use IR spectroscopy to analyze raw milk before it reaches supermarket shelves.

Researchers from New Mexico State University (Las Cruces, New Mexico) have replaced the standard rock identification tools of field geologists with laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS).

Researchers used proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy to highlight the differences in the levels and ratios of certain brain chemicals in the hippocampus of patients with fibromyalgia syndrome compared with a control group of healthy women.

EDAX, Inc. (Mahwah, New Jersey) has recently introduced several new items that reportedly will enhance productivity and efficiency in the spectroscopy laboratory.

Using electron microscopy and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, researchers found evidence of embalming in Roman Greek times.

Inc. Magazine has named ASD to their Inc. 5000 list for the second consecutive year.

Researchers at Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) and the University of Antwerp (Antwerp, Belgium) used synchrotron radiation-induced X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy to reveal a portrait of a woman by Vincent van Gogh beneath the paint of his 1887 "Patch of Grass."

Fiberguide Industries, Inc. has been formally recognized by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, for their participation and contributions in the National Ignition Facility (NIF) program

Applications are now being accepted for the 2009 Gordon Kirkbright Bursary.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has established a new partnership with Alta Tecnologia to extend its informatics offerings in Chile.

The American Institute of Chemists (Philadelphia, PA) has announced the recipients of the 2008 AIC Gold Medal.

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