A cornerstone-laying ceremony took place in August in celebration of Delta Optical Thin Film’s new facilities, located in DTU Science Park in Hørsholm, Denmark. The larger facility became necessary when the company outgrew its current facilities, both in terms of production and office space.
The Coblentz Society and the Society of Applied Spectroscopy are co-hosting a Speed Mentoring event at SciX, at the Palm Springs Convention Center in California, on Monday, October 14.
Jacob T. Shelley, the Alan Paul Schulz Career Development Professor of Chemistry at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has won the 2020 Emerging Leader in Atomic Spectroscopy Award, which is presented by Spectroscopy magazine. Shelley’s work currently focuses on the development of plasma-based tools for mass spectrometry, to enable rapid and sensitive detection and identification of a broad range of analytes from complex matrices.
On July 13, 2019, from 5 pm to 8 pm, the New York–New Jersey Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) organization celebrated their student award winners at its annual banquet, held at Rutgers State University in the new Chemistry and Chemical Biology building in Piscataway, New Jersey. This year the group celebrated the accomplishments of three winners.
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The Biemann Medal was awarded to Sarah Trimpin at the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) conference on Tuesday, June 4, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Trimpin is a professor of chemistry at Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan).
Ishan Barman, PhD, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University, has won the 2019 Emerging Leader in Molecular Spectroscopy Award, which is presented by Spectroscopy magazine. This 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 Barman at the SciX 2019 conference in October, where he will give a plenary lecture and be honored in an award symposium.
The Association of British Spectroscopists (ABS) Trust invites applications for the 2020 Gordon Kirkbright Bursary and the 2020 Edward Steers Bursary.
The 2019 Spectroscopy salary and employment survey extracted from calendar year 2018 trends shows an unexpected and marked decrease in salaries from previous survey years.
The Opioid Detection Challenge, launched by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in collaboration with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), invites innovators to submit novel plans for rapid, nonintrusive detection tools that will help find illicit opioids being trafficked into the United States through international mail.
Bruker Corporation (Billerica, Massachusetts) has acquired Arxspan LLC, a provider of cloud-based scientific software and workflow solutions based in Southborough, Massachusetts.
Yukihiro Ozaki, a former Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the School of Science and Technology at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan, was presented with the Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award during a symposium on March 20 at Pittcon 2019 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Coblentz Society Williams-Wright Award was presented to Wolfgang Petrich of Roche Diabetes Care GmbH and Heidelberg University, on March 19, at Pittcon 2019, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
This acquisition of the ASI product line expands Applied Spectra’s product portfolio into excimer laser ablation and helium thermochronology instrumentation.
In a paper published in the Journal of Spectral Imaging, José Amigo at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and colleagues describe a method that uses near-infrared (NIR) hyperspectral imaging and chemometrics to sort plastics that contain different types of plastic and plastics that contain different additions of flame retardants.
Steve Buckley has joined Ocean Optics as the vice president of product development and engineering.
Jeffrey Lopez of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been chosen as the winner of Metrohm’s 7th Annual Young Chemist Award, to be presented at Pittcon 2019 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at 3:00 pm on March 20.
In the fall of 2017, Belinda Pastrana, like many Puerto Ricans, faced destruction all around her following of Hurricane Maria’s arrival on September 20.
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The December meeting of the New York and New Jersey Society for Applied Spectroscopy (NYSAS) was held on December 5 at the Horiba Optical Spectroscopy Center in Piscataway, New Jersey. The guest speaker, Curtis Marcott, was one of the 2018 tour speakers offered by the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS).
The Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) and the SAS Atomic Technical Section will honor up to four students with the inaugural SAS Atomic Spectroscopy Student Award.
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (Thousand Oaks, California) and Roper Technologies, Inc. (Sarasota, Florida) have entered into an agreement under which Teledyne will acquire the scientific imaging businesses of Roper for $225 million in cash.
Stephen Cramer of the University of California, in Davis California, will be presented with the EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in Vibrational Spectroscopy at the Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS), taking place in Princeton, New Jersey on November 12–14.
The EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in Magnetic Resonance will be presented to Clare P. Grey at the Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) on November 14 in Princeton, New Jersey.
The New York and New Jersey section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (NYSAS) will present the Gold Medal Award to Igor K. Lednev at the Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS), in Princeton, New Jersey, on November 12.
The William F. Meggers award is presented to the author or authors of an outstanding paper appearing in Applied Spectroscopy. This year’s recipient is S. Michael Angel, a professor of chemistry at the University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina).
Andrew Whitley was presented with the FACSS Charles Mann Award at SciX 2018, held October 21–26 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Diane Parry received the 2017 SAS Distinguished Service award at the SciX 2018 conference, held on October 21–26 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Coherent (Santa Clara, California) has recently acquired Ondax (Monrovia, California), expanding its portfolio of components, lasers, and laser systems.
Ian R. Lewis of Kaiser Optical Systems will receive the FACSS Distinguished Service Award from the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) at the SciX 2018 conference, which will be held October 21–26 in Atlanta, Georgia.
