Bruker Corporation (Bremen, Germany) has signed an exclusive patent license agreement with 3M Company (Elyria, Ohio), which allows Bruker to use 3M patented innovations relating to matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry imaging.

Spectroscopy is pleased to announce the addition of Mike Bradley to its editorial advisory board.

The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) is deferring implementation of General Chapters <232> Elemental Impurities?Limits and <233> Elemental Impurities?Procedures.

R. Graham Cooks, the Henry Bohn Hass Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana), is the recipient of the 2013 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences, conferred this year in chemical instrumentation.

Applications are invited for the 2014 Gordon Kirkbright Bursary.

B&W Tek, Inc. (Newark, Delaware) has completed its first series of educational videos.

The 2013 meeting of NASLIBS will be held from September 29 to October 4 at the SciX conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (http://scixconference.org/). The program offers 11 sessions and extends for the duration of the conference. Session topics include data analysis from the Curiosity Mars Rover, quantification of LIBS results, new hardware and methodologies, hyphenated LIBS, and applications from forensics to industrial measurements.

Advanstar Communications (New York, New York) has announced the launch of the new Pharmaceutical Technology and BioPharm International Marketplace eDirectory built on the online Credibility Review Business Marketplace platform developed by Dun and Bradstreet Credibility Corp. (Malibu California). Advanstar Communications are the first B2B publishers to embrace the platform.

The winners of the WITec PaperAward, an annual worldwide competition among scientists whose research reflects the impact of scientific results and the innovation of the applied techniques, have been announced.

John D. Roberts, Institute Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) received the 2013 American Institute of Chemists (AIC) Gold Medal.

SciAps, a maker of portable analytical instrumentation based in Woburn, Massachusetts, has acquired DeltaNu (Laramie, Wyoming), formerly a business unit of Intevac Photonics.

If asked by a young scientist considering career options, would you recommend your career? Over half of respondents to this survey said they would. This year's annual salary survey took a look at current salaries and working conditions for spectroscopists to find out why.

Spectroscopy magazine is seeking contributed manuscripts for its August 2013 supplement on Fourier transform-infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy.

The Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy has announced the awardees of the 2013 Pittsburgh Conference Memorial National College Grant.

Techcomp Group Ltd. (Kowloon, Hong Kong), has acquired the majority holding of shares in Edinburgh Instruments Ltd. (EI) (Livingston, Scotland).

The Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) will present the 2013 Pittcon Heritage Award in honor of Gunther Laukien (1924?1997), the founder of the Bruker group of companies.

The Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy (FACSS) has named Volker Deckert as the winner of the 2013 Charles Mann Award.

Spectroscopy is pleased to announce the addition of Rachael R. Ogorzalek Loo to its editorial advisory board.

The Coblentz Society has named Rohit Bhargava as the recipient of the 2013 Craver Award.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded Xylem Inc., (White Plains, New York) a $300,000 contract to provide special mass spectrometry technology with a goal of detecting water on the moon.

Spectroscopy is pleased to announce the addition of Matthieu Baudelet, PhD, to its editorial advisory board.

The Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) has announced the presentation of the 2012 FACSS Innovation Award, given for the most innovative, original, and creative research, to Rohit Bhargava.

At the 2012 Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS), held between the 12th and 15th of November in Somerset, New Jersey, USA, four major awards were given to distinguished scientists working within the field of spectroscopy.

The 9th Confocal Raman Imaging Symposium took place in Ulm, Germany on September 26 and 27 and featured the application possibilities of high-resolution Raman microscopy in pharmaceutical research as well as in materials, geological and life sciences.

New techniques developed by a team of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (Cambridge, Massachusetts) could help unlock the mysteries of exactly how electrons move and react in topological insulators–materials that hold promise for new kinds of electronic devices.

Spectroscopy invites researchers to submit their work for publication.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released preliminary data on arsenic levels in certain rice and rice products.

The Council for Near Infrared Spectroscopy (CNIRS) has awarded Michael (Micky) Myrick with the Gerald Birth Award for best work in diffuse spectroscopy published in 2010 to 2011.