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North American Society for Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Now Part of FACSS and SciX
May 16th 2013The 2013 meeting of NASLIBS will be held from September 29 to October 4 at the SciX conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (http://scixconference.org/). The program offers 11 sessions and extends for the duration of the conference. Session topics include data analysis from the Curiosity Mars Rover, quantification of LIBS results, new hardware and methodologies, hyphenated LIBS, and applications from forensics to industrial measurements.
The Future is Bright: Spectroscopy's Annual Salary Survey
April 4th 2013If asked by a young scientist considering career options, would you recommend your career? Over half of respondents to this survey said they would. This year's annual salary survey took a look at current salaries and working conditions for spectroscopists to find out why.
NASA Awards Xylem $300K Water Analysis Contract for Instrument to Detect Water on the Moon
January 14th 2013The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded Xylem Inc., (White Plains, New York) a $300,000 contract to provide special mass spectrometry technology with a goal of detecting water on the moon.
Reimer, McLafferty, Hodges and Mendelsohn Receive Top Awards at EAS
December 10th 2012At the 2012 Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS), held between the 12th and 15th of November in Somerset, New Jersey, USA, four major awards were given to distinguished scientists working within the field of spectroscopy.
Pharmaceutical Research Applications Featured at Confocal Raman Imaging Symposium
October 12th 2012The 9th Confocal Raman Imaging Symposium took place in Ulm, Germany on September 26 and 27 and featured the application possibilities of high-resolution Raman microscopy in pharmaceutical research as well as in materials, geological and life sciences.
Watching Electrons Move at High Speed
October 1st 2012New techniques developed by a team of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (Cambridge, Massachusetts) could help unlock the mysteries of exactly how electrons move and react in topological insulators–materials that hold promise for new kinds of electronic devices.
FACSS Adds Three International Societies as New Member Organizations
September 14th 2012The Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) has accepted three new member organizations—the AES Electrophoresis Society, the Spectroscopial Society of Japan (SpSJ), and the North American Society for Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (NASLIBS)—as full member organizations.
Industry-Academic Postdoctoral Placement
August 20th 2012The North Carolina State University Plants for Human Health Institute (PHHI) and the Dole Nutrition Research Laboratory (Kannapolis, North Carolina) have collaborated to form a joint industry-academic postdoctoral fellowship, the first of its kind at the North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC).