AOAC International is seeking nominations for the Harvey W. Wiley Award and for recognition as a Fellow of AOAC International.

Nominations are being sought for the 2015 Gold Medal Award of the New York Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy.

Spectroscopy magazine is pleased to announce the addition of Ellen V. Miseo to its editorial advisory board.

The 2014 Eastern Analytical Symposium and Exposition (EAS), taking place November 17?19 in Somerset, New Jersey, promises attendees a comprehensive program of educational and networking opportunities for analytical scientists.

Spectro Scientific (Chelmsford, Massachusetts), a developer and manufacturer of analytical tools and software for fluid and machine condition monitoring, has earned a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II award of $750,000 for its work in reevaluating the Joint Oil Analysis Program (JOAP) that consolidates and coordinates the oil analysis programs of the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force.

Renishaw (Hoffman Estates, Illinois), a global engineering technologies company, has received the Queen's Award for Enterprise 2014 in the Innovations category for its inVia Raman microscope.

Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, California) has awarded an Agilent Thought Leader Award to John A. McLean, who is a Stevenson Professor of Chemistry at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee).

Horiba Scientific?s second annual RamanFest conference was held June 12-13, 2014, in Boston, Massachusetts, in conjunction with Harvard University. The conference took place on the Harvard campus in the Pfizer auditorium. The event chairs were Professor Sunny Xie of Harvard University, Dr. Dan Fu of Harvard University, and Dr. Andrew Whitley of Horiba Scientific. The international, two-day conference featured 16 talks from many well-known scientists as well as 13 posters that were on display both days.

Spectris (Surrey, UK) - the parent company of PANalytical - has acquired the business and assets of the Canadian company La Corporation Scientifique Claisse Inc., a provider of sample preparation products for atomic spectroscopy (including X-ray) analysis.

Applications are invited for the 2015 Gordon F. Kirkbright Bursary Award, which enables a promising student or non-tenured young scientist of any nation to attend a recognized scientific meeting or visit a place of learning.

Carolyn Mountford, of the University of Newcastle (Australia) has received an Agilent Thought Leader Award in recognition of her innovative work using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy technology in cancer research.

The California Department of Public Health has proposed to establish the first regulatory limit in the United States for hexavalent chromium (chromium-6) in drinking water. The proposed Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) sets the limit for hexavalent chromium at 10 parts per billion. California, like those of other states and United States federal government, currently only regulates total chromium levels.

The Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh (SSP), one of two Pittcon conference and exposition sponsors, has selected Alfred G. Redfield as the recipient of the 2015 Pittcon Spectroscopy Award. Redfield is a professor of biochemistry and physics, Emeritus, at Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts).

Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, California) is offering a recycling program that enables customers in the United States and Canada to return used atomic absorption lamps. Under this new program, laboratories are invited to return used hollow cathode lamps for recycling.

Magritek (Wellington, New Zealand), a provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, and LEAP Technologies (Carrboro, North Carolina) have formed a partnership to develop automated solutions for the NMR products.

A study that addresses the need for analytical tools for identifying, characterizing, and setting up adequate conservation strategies for museum collections that contain plastics was completed within the framework of two research projects dealing with the conservation of contemporary artworks.

A new study by researchers at the Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry (Ontario, Canada) used near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) to detect impaired tissue oxygen saturation in patients with this syndrome.

Anasys Instruments Corporation (Santa Barbara, California) has licensed a Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) nanoscale mass spectrometry imaging technology that allows for simultaneous chemical and physical characterization and could lead to advances in materials and drug development.

Spectroscopy magazine is seeking contributed manuscripts for its August 2014 supplement on Fourier transform-infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy. This supplement will include explanations of fundamentals of FT-IR spectroscopy, along with discussions of recent advances in the technology and applications-oriented articles.

Teledyne Instruments (Thousand Oaks, California), a subsidiary of Technologies Inc. (City of Industries, California) has acquired Photon Machines, Inc. (PMI).

Spark Holland B.V. (VE Emmen, Netherlands) and Gerstel GmbH & Co. KG (M?lheim an der Ruhr, Germany) have entered into an agreement based on Spark's patented dried blood spot (DBS) technology.

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RamanFest, an international event held by Horiba Scientific (Edison, NJ) in conjunction with Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts) has added Professor Mildred Dresselhaus, of MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts) to its growing list of world-renowned speakers.