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Heidi Goenaga Infante has won the 2023 European Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry. She will receive the award on February 3 at the European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry 2023 (EWCPS 2023) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where she will give a plenary talk, titled, “A Journey of Continued Contributions to Plasma Spectrochemistry: Focus on Metrology at the Nanoscale.”

Andreas Riedo of the Physics Institute at the University of Bern, the 2023 winner of the Emerging Leader in Atomic Spectroscopy Award, is using laser ablation–desorption ionization mass spectrometry (LIMS) to chemically analyze complex mineral surfaces found in space exploration.

At the recent Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS), held November 14–16, Donald Dahlberg taught his 20th, and final, short course on chemometrics, called “Chemometrics Without Equations.”

The Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) supports a Student Research Awards program to recognize students involved in research in the broad field of analytical chemistry.

Physical biologist Manu Prakash received the New York Microscopical Society Ernst Abbe Award at an awards session at the Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) on Monday, November 14, in Plainsboro, New Jersey.

Rohit Bhargava, a Founder and Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, received the 2022 NY/NJ Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy Gold Medal Award on Wednesday, November 16, in an award session at the Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) in Plainsboro, New Jersey.

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Philip J. Grandinetti of the Ohio State University is the winner of the 2022 Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) Award for Outstanding Achievements in Magnetic Resonance.

Richard Crocombe of Crocombe Spectroscopy Consulting has won the 2022 Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) Award for Outstanding Achievements in Vibrational Spectroscopy.

Adam Gilmore, of Horiba Scientific’s Piscataway, New Jersey office, shared the 2022 Japanese Photochemistry Association Technical Award for Fluorescence Instrumentation with Kiyoaki Hara of Horiba STEC, and Yuichi Kitagawa of Horiba Techno Service’s Analytical and Testing Technology Department.

Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, California) is launching a partnership with Delaware State University (DSU) (Dover, Delaware), a prominent historically Black university, to increase the share of underrepresented students entering science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields.

Andreas Riedo of the Physics Institute at the University of Bern has won the 2023 Emerging Leader in Atomic Spectroscopy Award, which is presented by Spectroscopy magazine.

Robin F.B. Turner and James M. Piret are the winners of the 2022 William F. Meggers Award, to be presented this fall at the SciX conference.

Lu Wei, an assistant professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, will be presented with the Emerging Leader in Molecular Spectroscopy Award at the SciX 2022 conference.

Martin Zanni, who is the Meloche-Bascom professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the winner of the 2022 Ellis R. Lippincott Award.

The 2022 Craver Award will be presented to Wei Min at SciX, taking place October 2–7 at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center in Greater Cincinnati.

Canadian company GHGSat, which specializes in high-resolution GHG monitoring from space, launched three new ABB-built optical sensors into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, USA.

Here, we offer highlights of the 2022 Review of Spectroscopic Instrumentation, which appeared in our May issue.

The Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) encourages undergraduate students doing research in spectroscopy to apply for one of a limited number of travel awards of up to $300 per student to attend the SAS National Meeting at SciX 2022, taking place October 2–7 at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center in Greater Cincinnati.

Seignory Chemical Products Ltd, known globally as SCP Science (Quebec, Canada), was recently sold to AnalytiChem (Germany).

Colby Ott, a PhD candidate at West Virginia University’s Forensic and Investigative Science Department in Morgantown, West Virginia, has won the 2022 Young Chemist Award from Metrohm USA.

Steven A. Soper, a Foundation Distinguished Professor in chemistry and mechanical engineering at the University of Kansas, is the 2022 winner of the Ralph N. Adams Award in Bioanalytical Chemistry.

Horiba UK (Northampton, UK) has joined the Lifetime Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT, Birmingham, UK) as an industry partner.

Paul Bohn, the Arthur J. Schmitt Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, is the 2022 recipient of the Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry (SEAC) Charles N. Reilley Award.

Justin Sambur, an assistant professor of chemistry at Colorado State University is the 2022 winner of the Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry (SEAC) Royce W. Murray Young Investigator Award.

Rohit Bhargava, the Founder Professor of Bioengineering and a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is the 2022 winner of the Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award. He will receive the award during a virtual session at Pittcon 2022 on Monday, March 14, that starts at 1:00 pm EST.

Wei Gao, an Assistant Professor of Medical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, is the 2022 recipient of the Pittsburgh Conference Achievement Award. He will receive the award on Monday, March 14, during a Pittcon 2022 virtual session that starts at 1:00 pm EST.

Thermo Fisher Scientific (San Jose, California), has acquired Max Analytical Technologies (East Windsor, Connecticut).

What can spectroscopic techniques, such as portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (PXRF), reveal about the sarsen megaliths of Stonehenge and where they originated?