The winner of the WITec Paper Award 2011 has been announced.

Floralis Resolution Spectra Systems (Grenoble, France), created last December, has started the production of high-resolution, compact, spectrometers.

In an effort to bridge the gap between photonics and electronics, researchers from Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana) have coaxed a thin film of titanium nitride into transporting plasmons, tiny electron excitations coupled to light that can direct and manipulate optical signals on the nanoscale.

Spectroscopy magazine is seeking contributed manuscripts for its August 2012 supplement on Fourier transform-infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy.

AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), in collaboration with the American Chemical Society (ACS) (Washington, DC), recently launched a new science award in recognition of the vital role that scientists play in advancing chemistry and material sciences research.

Malvern Instruments (Malvern, UK) has opened a new multipurpose facility in Houston, Texas.

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) in Helsinki, Finland recently launched a new inventory of chemicals called the Public Classification and Labeling (C&L) Inventory.

IO Informatics (Berkeley, California) recently entered into a strategic partnership with Sage-N Research, Inc. (Milpitas, California).

The winners of the 2011 Prism Awards were recognized at Photonics West on January 25 at a gala banquet in at SPIE?s Photonics West Conference.

A team of researchers from institutions including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts) has detected the element tellurium for the first time in three ancient stars.

A team led by physicist Manfred Fink of the University of Texas at Austin is developing a small spectrometer that may improve earthquake detection and bring down the cost of some medical tests.

The Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon recently announced the 2012 Pittsburgh Conference Memorial National College Grant recipients.

The Molecular Foundry of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, California) and abeam Technologies (Berkeley, California) recently published results of initial studies of a new technology that opens a unique route to develop spectrometer-on-chip.

ASD Inc. (Boulder, Colorado) has announced the Alexander Geotz Instrument Support Program award recipients for 2012.

The Coblentz Society and the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) recently named Professor Duncan Graham of the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland) as the recipient of the Coblentz Society?s 2012 Craver Award.

Rigaku (The Woodlands, Texas) and the University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan) held a ceremony on January 25, 2012 to celebrate the establishment of an Industry-Academia Collaboration Center at the university.

Spectroscopy magazine is pleased to announce the addition of Jim Rydzak to its editorial advisory board.

The Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) announced the winners of the 2011 FACSS Innovation Awards, which showcase the newest and most creative science debuted orally at a FACSS organized conference.

In response to the growing concern in the United States over the threat of nuclear terrorism, the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) launched the National Nuclear Forensic Expertise Development Program (NNFEDP) in 2008. Led by DNDO in close collaboration with the Departments of Energy (DOE) and Defense, the NNFEDP is an interagency effort committed to developing and maintaining a robust academic and technical pipeline to strengthen the nuclear forensics workforce.

The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office in the Department of Homeland Security launched the National Nuclear Forensic Expertise Development Program (NNFEDP) in 2008. The NNFEDP is an interagency effort committed to developing and maintaining a robust academic and technical pipeline to strengthen the nuclear forensics workforce.

Spectroscopy magazine is pleased to announce the addition of Micky Myrick, PhD, to its editorial advisory board.

Researchers at the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (Upton, New York) used an advanced x-ray detector developed at NSLS to find compelling evidence that an unknown Rembrandt painting, titled ?Old Man with a Beard,? was an authentic work done by the Dutch master.

Physicists in Italy have developed a new method, based on infrared laser spectroscopy, to carbon-date old samples that can be performed using portable and low-cost equipment. According to the researchers, their new idea could have other applications in biomedical procedures, environmental monitoring, fundamental physics, and explosives detection.

A new class of x-ray photoelectron spectroscopic microscope has been developed at the U.S. Department of Energy?s Brookhaven National Laboratory (Upton, New York) and will be used for advanced research on a wide range of technologically important materials systems.

J. Sabine Becker, the head of trace and ultratrace Analysis in the Central Division of Analytical Chemistry at the Research Center Juelich, in Juelich, Germany, has won the 2012 Winter Conference Award in Plasma Spectrochemistry, sponsored by Thermo Fisher Scientific (San Jose, California).

Edinburgh Instruments (Livingston, UK), is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a restructuring of the company to focus on its new Edinburgh Photonics and Edinburgh Sensors divisions.

PIKE Technologies (Madison, Wisconsin) debuted a new company website, www.piketech.com, in October.

Waters recently welcomed Assistant Professor Ganesh Anand's laboratory at the National University of Singapore (NUS, Queenstown, Singapore) into its Centers of Innovation Program, making the center the first of its kind in Asia.