Samuel W. Coleman, who is the owner of Colespec Solutions, has won the 2016 Award for Outstanding Achievements in Near-Infrared Spectroscopy from the Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS).

Gary Martin, who is a Senior Principal Scientist at Merck Research Laboratories in Rahway, New Jersey, has received the 2016 Award for Outstanding Achievements in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy from the Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS).

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.

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).

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.

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?

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 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.

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

Steven J. Ray, an assistant professor of chemistry at the State University of New York at Buffalo, received the inaugural Young Plasma Scientist Award today at the Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry in Tucson, Arizona. The award, judged by an international selection committee and sponsored by Thermo Fisher Scientific, recognizes the work of a scientist no older than 45 years old working in the field of plasma spectrochemistry.

Nicoló Omenetto, a professor of chemistry at the University of Florida, received the 2016 Winter Conference Award in Plasma Spectrochemistry today at the Winter Conference in Tucson, Arizona.

Spectroscopy magazine is pleased to announce the addition of Rohit Bhargava to its editorial advisory board.

The Coblentz Society has named Kenneth L. Knappenberger Jr. as the recipient of the 2016 Coblentz Award.

Spectroscopy magazine is pleased to announce the addition of Lu Yang to its editorial advisory board.

Spectroscopy magazine is pleased to announce the addition of Steven J. Ray to its editorial advisory board.

Timothy A. Cross has received the 2015 EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. The award was presented to him at the Eastern Analytical Symposium conference in Somerset, New Jersey, on November 16.

John A. Reffner has been named the recipient of the 2015 Gold Medal Award from the New York section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy. The award was presented to him at the 2015 Eastern Analytical Symposium in Somerset, New Jersey, on November 16.