Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana) researchers recently received more than $200,000 in grants to commercialize their spectroscopy innovations designed to facilitate biological and medical research and diagnostics. The grants were awarded by the Purdue Research Foundation’s Trask Innovation Fund, which assists faculty and staff whose discoveries are commercialized through the Purdue Office of Technology Commercialization.

Spectroscopy is pleased to announce the addition of Fran Adar to its editorial advisory board.

Technology developed by the National Physical Laboratory (Teddington, Middlesex, UK) (NPL) could help reverse the estimated $5.42 billion lost each year through the production of counterfeit clothing.

The Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment (MIRTHE) center hosted a workshop titled “Air Quality Monitoring Related to Energy Extraction†on Friday, August 9, 2013 at Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey). The workshop was well attended and highlighted some of the key issues surrounding energy extraction.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed an ?action level? of 10 parts per billion (ppb) for inorganic arsenic in apple juice. This is the same level set by the U.S. Environmental Agency (EPA) for arsenic in drinking water.

Photonis Technologies (Sturbridge, Massachusetts) has created a new business unit that will exclusively concentrate on the research, design, development and manufacture of digital low-light imaging technologies. The new division, to be known as Photonis Digital Imaging, will be headquartered in Frisco, Texas.

Charles Wilkins, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, Arkansas), has been awarded the 2013 American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Chemical Instrumentation, sponsored by the Dow Chemical Company (North Olmsted, Ohio).

WITec will host the 10th Symposium Confocal Raman Imaging from September 30 to October 2, 2013, in Ulm, Germany.The symposium will cover various aspects of modern Raman microscopy and will provide insights into confocal Raman imaging and its applications.

Bruker Corporation (Bremen, Germany) has signed an exclusive patent license agreement with 3M Company (Elyria, Ohio), which allows Bruker to use 3M patented innovations relating to matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry imaging.

The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) is deferring implementation of General Chapters <232> Elemental Impurities?Limits and <233> Elemental Impurities?Procedures.

R. Graham Cooks, the Henry Bohn Hass Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana), is the recipient of the 2013 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences, conferred this year in chemical instrumentation.

Applications are invited for the 2014 Gordon Kirkbright Bursary.

B&W Tek, Inc. (Newark, Delaware) has completed its first series of educational videos.

The 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.

Advanstar Communications (New York, New York) has announced the launch of the new Pharmaceutical Technology and BioPharm International Marketplace eDirectory built on the online Credibility Review Business Marketplace platform developed by Dun and Bradstreet Credibility Corp. (Malibu California). Advanstar Communications are the first B2B publishers to embrace the platform.

The winners of the WITec PaperAward, an annual worldwide competition among scientists whose research reflects the impact of scientific results and the innovation of the applied techniques, have been announced.

The Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) recently admitted the Council for Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (CNIRS) to the federation as a full member organization.

John D. Roberts, Institute Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) received the 2013 American Institute of Chemists (AIC) Gold Medal.

SciAps, a maker of portable analytical instrumentation based in Woburn, Massachusetts, has acquired DeltaNu (Laramie, Wyoming), formerly a business unit of Intevac Photonics.

If 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.

Spectroscopy magazine is seeking contributed manuscripts for its August 2013 supplement on Fourier transform-infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy.

The Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy has announced the awardees of the 2013 Pittsburgh Conference Memorial National College Grant.

Techcomp Group Ltd. (Kowloon, Hong Kong), has acquired the majority holding of shares in Edinburgh Instruments Ltd. (EI) (Livingston, Scotland).

The Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) will present the 2013 Pittcon Heritage Award in honor of Gunther Laukien (1924?1997), the founder of the Bruker group of companies.

The Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy (FACSS) has named Volker Deckert as the winner of the 2013 Charles Mann Award.

Spectroscopy is pleased to announce the addition of Rachael R. Ogorzalek Loo to its editorial advisory board.

The Coblentz Society has named Rohit Bhargava as the recipient of the 2013 Craver Award.

The 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.