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James G. Fujimoto, who is the Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), has received the 2016 EAS New York Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy Gold Medal Award.

At 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.

In 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.

The 2016 annual meeting of the Association of Analytical Communities (AOAC), taking place September 18–21 in Dallas, Texas, will include scientific sessions discussing the use of spectroscopy and mass spectrometry techniques in the analysis of food, dietary supplements, and pharmaceuticals.

Cobolt AB, Swedish manufacturer of high performance lasers, is proud to announce that they will integrate their sales activities into the HÜBNER Group and its Photonics division as of July 1st, 2016.

The 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, 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.

The Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences at the University of British Columbia, in Canada, hosts a multidisciplinary group of physics, engineering, and radiation oncology scientists.

The 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.

Proceeds from Pittcon 2016 are distributed by its sponsoring societies, the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh (SACP), and the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh (SSP).

Kandice Tanner of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has received the annual Young Fluorescence Investigator Award from Horiba Scientific.

Fluorescence spectroscopy systems from Edinburgh Instruments (Livingston, UK) were installed at the new Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC) in Thailand.

Analytica 2016, held this week in Munich, includes strong programming in spectroscopy techniques. Two sessions-one on modern analytical spectroscopy and another on bioprocessing monitoring-are entirely dedicated to spectroscopy.

Researchers 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 magazine is pleased to announce the addition of Bernhard Lendl to its editorial advisory board.

The latest Spectroscopy salary survey shows that the average salary has dropped slightly, despite increasing workloads. But has this impacted job satisfaction?

Spellman High Voltage Electronics recently introduced its Power Distribution unit (PDU).

Cobolt AB, a Swedish manufacturer of high-performance lasers, produced and shipped their 10,000th laser this past February.

Matthew 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.

Juergen Popp, a chair-holder of physical chemistry at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena (Jena, Thuringia, Germany), was presented with the Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award on March 8 at Pittcon 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Sanford A. Asher, a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), was presented with the Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award on March 8 at Pittcon 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Drouét Warren Vidrine, of Vidrine Consulting, received the 2016 Williams-Wright Award from the Coblentz Society on March 9 at Pittcon 2016.

Shaul Mukamel, a distinguished professor of chemistry at the University of California (Irvine, California) was presented with the Bomem-Michelson Award at Pittcon 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia on March 8.

The 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.

The 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.

The 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.

VUV Analytics (Cedar Park, Texas) is collaborating with Caltech Environmental Analysis Center (EAC) in Pasadena, California, in a closed-ended project that explores new application capabilities using VUV’s VGA-100 Vacuum Ultraviolet (VUV) detector.

Edinburgh Instruments has accomplished installation of its top end fluorescence spectroscopy systems at the brand new Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC) in Thailand.

Spectroscopy magazine is pleased to announce the addition of Lora Brehm to its Editorial Advisory Board.