Tao Chen, a PhD candidate from the Chemical Engineering & Materials Science Department at Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, New Jersey), has won the first prize and a cash award for his research presentation at the annual symposium of the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York.

PREMIER Biosoft (Palo Alto, California) entered into a marketing and reselling agreement with AB SCIEX (Framingham, Massachusetts) to help advance lipidomics research.

Advion (Ithica, New York) announced a new award for undergraduate students, masters and PhD candidates, and post-doctoral research associates who demonstrate scientific excellence within the field of mass spectrometry.

The Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation, a non-profit, charitable corporation, has named Jorge Gardea-Torresdey one of 10 Piper Professors for superior teaching at the college level.

In a new study, scientists at the University of Warwick (Coventry, UK) present the results of the analysis of petroleum and protein samples to demonstrate the applicability of the absorption-mode in Fourier Transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FT-ICR-MS) to routine experiments.

Jang Hyuk Lee and a team of scientists at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (Gwangju, Korea) have published new research that describes the potential for fast, inexpensive diagnosis of breast and other cancer cells using advanced Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) microspectroscopy.

Applications are invited for the 2013 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.

A new optical imaging system, developed by an international team of researchers, uses ?speckle imaging,? an optical sensing technique that measures the differences in how laser light bounces off the membranes of healthy and infected red blood cells and may make diagnosing malaria easier, faster, and more accurate.

Edinburgh Instruments Limited (Livingston, West Lothian, UK) has appointed Derek Shepherd as Chairman.

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.

The Association of Analytical Chemists (ANACHEM) organization and the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) have selected Peter R. Griffiths as the recipient of the 2012 ANACHEM Award.

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.