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Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, California) is launching a partnership with Delaware State University (DSU) (Dover, Delaware), a prominent historically Black university, to increase the share of underrepresented students entering science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields.

Andreas Riedo of the Physics Institute at the University of Bern has won the 2023 Emerging Leader in Atomic Spectroscopy Award, which is presented by Spectroscopy magazine.

Robin F.B. Turner and James M. Piret are the winners of the 2022 William F. Meggers Award, to be presented this fall at the SciX conference.

Lu Wei, an assistant professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, will be presented with the Emerging Leader in Molecular Spectroscopy Award at the SciX 2022 conference.

Martin Zanni, who is the Meloche-Bascom professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the winner of the 2022 Ellis R. Lippincott Award.

The 2022 Craver Award will be presented to Wei Min at SciX, taking place October 2–7 at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center in Greater Cincinnati.

Canadian company GHGSat, which specializes in high-resolution GHG monitoring from space, launched three new ABB-built optical sensors into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, USA.

Here, we offer highlights of the 2022 Review of Spectroscopic Instrumentation, which appeared in our May issue.

The Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) encourages undergraduate students doing research in spectroscopy to apply for one of a limited number of travel awards of up to $300 per student to attend the SAS National Meeting at SciX 2022, taking place October 2–7 at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center in Greater Cincinnati.

Seignory Chemical Products Ltd, known globally as SCP Science (Quebec, Canada), was recently sold to AnalytiChem (Germany).

Colby Ott, a PhD candidate at West Virginia University’s Forensic and Investigative Science Department in Morgantown, West Virginia, has won the 2022 Young Chemist Award from Metrohm USA.

Steven A. Soper, a Foundation Distinguished Professor in chemistry and mechanical engineering at the University of Kansas, is the 2022 winner of the Ralph N. Adams Award in Bioanalytical Chemistry.

Horiba UK (Northampton, UK) has joined the Lifetime Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT, Birmingham, UK) as an industry partner.

Paul Bohn, the Arthur J. Schmitt Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, is the 2022 recipient of the Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry (SEAC) Charles N. Reilley Award.

Justin Sambur, an assistant professor of chemistry at Colorado State University is the 2022 winner of the Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry (SEAC) Royce W. Murray Young Investigator Award.

Rohit Bhargava, the Founder Professor of Bioengineering and a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is the 2022 winner of the Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award. He will receive the award during a virtual session at Pittcon 2022 on Monday, March 14, that starts at 1:00 pm EST.

Wei Gao, an Assistant Professor of Medical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, is the 2022 recipient of the Pittsburgh Conference Achievement Award. He will receive the award on Monday, March 14, during a Pittcon 2022 virtual session that starts at 1:00 pm EST.

Thermo Fisher Scientific (San Jose, California), has acquired Max Analytical Technologies (East Windsor, Connecticut).

What can spectroscopic techniques, such as portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (PXRF), reveal about the sarsen megaliths of Stonehenge and where they originated?

ABB has been awarded a contract worth around $30 million by the Canadian data and analytics company EarthDaily Analytics Corporation (EDA) to develop and manufacture next-generation multispectral imaging systems to be placed on 10 satellites, including an in-orbit spare, that will circle the earth.

An agreement between the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan and the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM) strengthens ties, enhances agricultural research, and encourages new technology development.

An upcoming online event will provide an excellent opportunity to assess the work of 20 current graduate students in vibrational spectroscopy from across the world. The free online seminar, which will be held on March 3 at 12:00 pm noon Eastern time, will be presented jointly by the Coblentz Society, along with the New York–New Jersey and New England sections of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS).

Eduardo Bolea-Fernandez will receive the Young Investigator Award in Plasma Spectrochemistry on Tuesday, January 18 at the Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry in Tuscon, Arizona.

The JAAS Emerging Investigator Lectureship Award will be presented to Jacob T. Shelly at the 2002 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry in Tuscon, Arizona, on Wednesday, January 19.

Donald J. Douglas has won the 2022 Winter Conference Lifetime Achievement Award in Plasma Spectroscopy. Douglas will receive the award, presented by Thermo Fisher Scientific, on Monday, January 17, at the Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry in Tuscon, Arizona.

A celebration of the 36-year career of Ulrich J. Krull, on the occasion of his retirement earlier this year.

The Atomic Spectroscopy Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) is seeking nominations for the 2022 SAS Atomic Spectroscopy Student Awards.

Denise Mitrano, an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich, in Switzerland, has won the 2022 Emerging Leader in Atomic Spectroscopy Award, which is presented by Spectroscopy magazine.

Metrohm recently opened a new office in Plainsboro, New Jersey. The official inauguration and ribbon-cutting ceremony took place on November 19, 2021.

Ozaki was presented with the award at the ICNIRS conference, which was held online this year in Beijing.