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Gary Martin Receives 2016 EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in NMR
November 14th 2016Gary Martin, who is a Senior Principal Scientist at Merck Research Laboratories in Rahway, New Jersey, has received the 2016 Award for Outstanding Achievements in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy from the Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS).
From Diagnostics to Donkeys: Analytical Chemists Easing World Poverty
October 28th 2016At SciX 2016 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Society for Applied Spectroscopy sponsored the special session “Analytical Chemists Easing World Poverty.” This session was founded in 2011 by SAS Past-President Diane Parry to highlight unmet measurement needs in developing nations. With the support of sponsors like the SAS, Spectroscopy magazine, and ChromAfrica, it has evolved into a popular session that examines a variety of topics ranging from technical solutions to instrumentation problems to cultural challenges of Westerners working in developing nations.
Nonprofit Brings Hands-On Laboratory Experience to Young Students to Promote STEM Careers
September 9th 2016In the United States, a lack of qualified candidates for jobs in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) underscores an urgent need for educators to find ways to draw students into these areas of study.
Renishaw’s inVia Confocal Raman Microscope Used to Study Blood Stored in Plastic Blood Bags
July 20th 2016The Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia, Canada, is leading the way in the use of Raman spectroscopy as a tool for monitoring biochemical changes and inter-donor variability in stored red blood cell (RBC) units.
Kaiser Optical Systems Hosts Groundbreaking Ceremony for Its Expansion in Ann Arbor
July 7th 2016Kaiser Optical Systems, Inc., an Endress+Hauser Company and a world leader in spectrographic instrumentation and applied holographic technology, hosted a groundbreaking ceremony on May 16, 2016, formally marking the expansion of its headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing Awarded $1M Grant from NIH
July 6th 2016The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $1.18 million to faculty at the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis and the IU School of Medicina (Indianapolis, Indiana) for a research collaboration that unites two cutting-edge technologies in the discovery and analysis of proteoforms.
Triplet-Exciton Energy Transfer from Semiconductor Nanocrystals Demonstrated Using Spectroscopy
May 4th 2016Researchers at North Carolina State University, led by Prof. Felix Castellano, have shown for the first time that the photogenerated triplet exciton in semiconductor nanocrystals can be harvested by surface bound molecular acceptors, exhibited by a six-order magnitude increase in the lifetime of the originally prepared excited state.
Spectroscopy Announces the First Winner of the Emerging Leader in Molecular Spectroscopy Award
March 22nd 2016Matthew Baker, a senior lecturer in chemistry at the University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow, has won the inaugural Emerging Leader in Molecular Spectroscopy Award, which is sponsored by Spectroscopy magazine. This new 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 Baker at the SciX 2016 conference in September, where he will give a plenary lecture and be honored in an award symposium.
Edinburgh Instruments’ Spectrometers Used to Characterize Egyptian Blue Pigment
March 18th 2016The Edinburgh Instruments applications team and Gianluca Accorsi, a research fellow at CNR Nanotec in Lecce, Italy, worked on the photo-physical properties of Egyptian blue pigment using Edinburgh’s fluorescence spectrometers.
University of Tokyo Uses Renishaw Confocal Raman Microscope to Develop Energy-Related Devices
March 2nd 2016The mechanical engineering department of the University of Tokyo is using a Renishaw inVia confocal Raman microscope to study graphene and other nano materials in the development of energy-related devices such as solar cells.
Hellma Group to Acquire Business of Axiom Analytical
March 2nd 2016The Hellma Group (Müllheim, Germany), a manufacturer of optical solutions and components for the process industries and research analytical laboratories, will acquire Axiom Analytical Inc. (Tustin, California), a provider of laboratory and process sampling equipment.