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John M. Cottle, a professor of earth science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has won the 2018 Emerging Leader in Atomic Spectroscopy Award, which is presented by Spectroscopy magazine.

Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, used the laboratory’s unique neutron-imaging and high-energy X-ray capabilities to expose the inner structures of the fossil skull of a 74-million-year-old tyrannosauroid dinosaur nicknamed “Bisti Beast.”

The New York Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (NYSAS) has announced its initial lineup of speakers for its meeting for its fall 2017 meetings.

Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, California) has acquired Cobalt Light Systems (Oxfordshire, United Kingdom), a provider of Raman spectroscopic instruments for the pharmaceutical industry, applied markets, and public safety.

Applications are invited for the 2018 Gordon F. Kirkbright Bursary Award. This prestigious award is given annually to enable a promising student or tenured young scientist of any nation to attend a recognized scientific meeting or visit a place of learning.

A major international center for scientific research in the Middle East, supported by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), recently was inaugurated in Jordan.

Eurofins Scientific (Luxembourg), an international group of laboratories, has plans to establish a new pharmaceutical chemistry and microbiology facility in Livingston, Scotland.

The annual Spectroscopy salary survey investigated spectroscopy employment markets in 2017, and for the first time in three years our results indicated average salaries are on the rise (+2.7%).

ASTM’s committee on analytical chemistry for metals, ores, and related materials has developed a new method for analyzing the composition of aluminum and aluminum alloys.

Edward I. Solomon, Stanford University’s Monroe E. Spaght Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Photon Science at SLAC, has won the 2017 Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award.

Slobodan Sasic has won the 2017 Coblentz Society–Williams-Wright Award. He was presented with the award on Wednesday, March 8, at Pittcon 2017 in Chicago, Illinois.

Keith Nelson of MIT has won the 2017 Bomem-Michelson Award. Nelson was presented with the award on Tuesday, March 7, at Pittcon in Chicago, Illinois.

At the 2017 European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, held in St. Anton, Austria, February 19–24, several awards recognized the work of both young and seasoned atomic spectroscopists.

HORIBA Scientific, world leader in fluorescence spectroscopy systems, awarded Dr. Ibrahim Cissé, the Class of 1922 Assistant Professor of Physics at MIT, its annual Young Fluorescence Investigator Award.

Holographix LLC has been chosen by BAE Systems (UK) as the 2016 Product Innovation Award winner at their recent Electronics Systems Supplier Conference.

The International Centre for Diffraction Data has selected the recipients for the Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship.

Spectroscopy magazine is pleased to announce the addition of Matthew Baker to its editorial advisory board.

Samuel W. Coleman, who is the owner of Colespec Solutions, has won the 2016 Award for Outstanding Achievements in Near-Infrared Spectroscopy from the Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS).

Gary Martin, who is a Senior Principal Scientist at Merck Research Laboratories in Rahway, New Jersey, has received the 2016 Award for Outstanding Achievements in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy from the Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS).

James G. Fujimoto, who is the Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), has received the 2016 EAS New York Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy Gold Medal Award.

At SciX 2016 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Society for Applied Spectroscopy sponsored the special session “Analytical Chemists Easing World Poverty.” This session was founded in 2011 by SAS Past-President Diane Parry to highlight unmet measurement needs in developing nations. With the support of sponsors like the SAS, Spectroscopy magazine, and ChromAfrica, it has evolved into a popular session that examines a variety of topics ranging from technical solutions to instrumentation problems to cultural challenges of Westerners working in developing nations.

In the United States, a lack of qualified candidates for jobs in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) underscores an urgent need for educators to find ways to draw students into these areas of study.

The 2016 annual meeting of the Association of Analytical Communities (AOAC), taking place September 18–21 in Dallas, Texas, will include scientific sessions discussing the use of spectroscopy and mass spectrometry techniques in the analysis of food, dietary supplements, and pharmaceuticals.

Cobolt AB, Swedish manufacturer of high performance lasers, is proud to announce that they will integrate their sales activities into the HÜBNER Group and its Photonics division as of July 1st, 2016.

The Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia, Canada, is leading the way in the use of Raman spectroscopy as a tool for monitoring biochemical changes and inter-donor variability in stored red blood cell (RBC) units.

Kaiser Optical Systems, Inc., an Endress+Hauser Company and a world leader in spectrographic instrumentation and applied holographic technology, hosted a groundbreaking ceremony on May 16, 2016, formally marking the expansion of its headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

The Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences at the University of British Columbia, in Canada, hosts a multidisciplinary group of physics, engineering, and radiation oncology scientists.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $1.18 million to faculty at the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis and the IU School of Medicina (Indianapolis, Indiana) for a research collaboration that unites two cutting-edge technologies in the discovery and analysis of proteoforms.