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ABB has been awarded a contract worth around $30 million by the Canadian data and analytics company EarthDaily Analytics Corporation (EDA) to develop and manufacture next-generation multispectral imaging systems to be placed on 10 satellites, including an in-orbit spare, that will circle the earth.

An agreement between the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan and the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM) strengthens ties, enhances agricultural research, and encourages new technology development.

An upcoming online event will provide an excellent opportunity to assess the work of 20 current graduate students in vibrational spectroscopy from across the world. The free online seminar, which will be held on March 3 at 12:00 pm noon Eastern time, will be presented jointly by the Coblentz Society, along with the New York–New Jersey and New England sections of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS).

Eduardo Bolea-Fernandez will receive the Young Investigator Award in Plasma Spectrochemistry on Tuesday, January 18 at the Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry in Tuscon, Arizona.

The JAAS Emerging Investigator Lectureship Award will be presented to Jacob T. Shelly at the 2002 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry in Tuscon, Arizona, on Wednesday, January 19.

Donald J. Douglas has won the 2022 Winter Conference Lifetime Achievement Award in Plasma Spectroscopy. Douglas will receive the award, presented by Thermo Fisher Scientific, on Monday, January 17, at the Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry in Tuscon, Arizona.

A celebration of the 36-year career of Ulrich J. Krull, on the occasion of his retirement earlier this year.

The Atomic Spectroscopy Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) is seeking nominations for the 2022 SAS Atomic Spectroscopy Student Awards.

Denise Mitrano, an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich, in Switzerland, has won the 2022 Emerging Leader in Atomic Spectroscopy Award, which is presented by Spectroscopy magazine.

Metrohm recently opened a new office in Plainsboro, New Jersey. The official inauguration and ribbon-cutting ceremony took place on November 19, 2021.

Ozaki was presented with the award at the ICNIRS conference, which was held online this year in Beijing.

Paulina Koziol, a third-year PhD student of biophysics at the Faculty of Physics, Astronomy, and Applied Computer Science of Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, will receive the 2021 William G. Fateley Award at SciX 2021.

The Infrared and Raman Discussion Group (IRDG) Chalmers and Dent Student Travel Award will be presented to Matthew Berry at SciX 2021, taking place in Providence, Rhode Island, September 26–October 1.

Doug Gilman and Greg Klunder will receive the 2021 FACSS Distinguished Service Award at SciX 2021, taking place September 26–October 1, in Providence, Rhode Island.

Grant J. Myres and Nicolás Morato will receive the Tomas Hirschfeld Scholar Award at SciX 2021, taking place September 26–October 1, in Providence, Rhode Island.

The Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) Atomic Section Student Award honors undergraduate or graduate student SAS members who have excelled in atomic spectroscopy.

The 2021 recipient of the FACSS Student award is Vanessa Cupil-Garcia, a fourth-year PhD candidate in Ruan Vo-Dinh’s group in the Department of Chemistry at Duke University (Durham, North Carolina).

To encourage undergraduate student research in spectroscopy, the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) is offering a limited number of travel awards of up to $300 per student to attend the SAS National Meeting at SciX 2021 in Providence, RI.

The guidance aids in the development, validation, and use of near infrared-based analytical procedures.

A team of researchers at the University of Brighton in England used a combination of geochemical and statistical approaches to determine where Stonehenge’s sarsen (silcrete) megalith stones came from.

Spectroscopy’s annual product review has become a go-to source for keeping up with the latest spectroscopy instruments, components, accessories, and software. In it, you can find everything that has been launched over the past 12 months, including at the most recent Pittcon event. Here, we offer highlights of the 2021 review, which appeared in our May issue, featuring new products in the atomic, Raman, and infrared (IR) categories of spectroscopy.

Fran Adar is the winner of the 2021 Gold Medal Award from the New York and New Jersey Society of Applied Spectroscopy (SAS).

The 2021 Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) Young Investigator Award will be presented to Jacob Shelley at the EAS Symposium taking place November 15–17, 2021, in Plainsboro, New Jersey.

L. Scott Ramos will receive the 2021 Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) Award for Outstanding Achievements in Chemometrics at the EAS Symposium taking place November 15–17, 2021, in Plainsboro, New Jersey.

Bhavya Sharma, PhD, an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has won the 2021 Emerging Leader in Molecular Spectroscopy Award, which is presented by Spectroscopy magazine.

Joseph A. Loo will be presented with the 2021 Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) Award for Outstanding Achievements in Mass Spectrometry at the EAS Symposium taking place November 15–17, 2021, in Plainsboro, New Jersey.

The 2021 Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Fields of Analytical Chemistry will be presented to Kenneth S. Suslick at the EAS Symposium, taking place November 15–17, 2021, in Plainsboro, New Jersey.

Songi Han of the University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) has won the 2021 Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) Award for Outstanding Achievements in Magnetic Resonance.

PerkinElmer, of Waltham, Massachusetts has acquired ES Industries, of West Berlin, New Jersey.

The Young Fluorescence Investigator Award was presented to Luca Lanzano at the Biophysical Society virtual event, BPS 2021, in February.