JAAS News

The RSC was a major sponsor of  the 2010 Midwestern Universities Analytical Chemistry Conference held October 7-9, 2010 at Purdue University.

2010 MUACC

The conference brings together professors and post-doctoral students from chemistry departments around the midwest for 2 days of presentations and discussion.  One unique aspect of MUACC is that all talks are 15 minutes in length and are given as chalk-talks (i.e. without slides).  This encourages presenters to talk about ‘big issues’ and the philosophy behind their scientific research.  The 2011 MUACC will be held at St. Louis University…All are welcome-if you happen to be in the area, please think of attending this very interesting conference!

Mr. Jake Shelley, winner of the 2010 FACSS Student Award.

Mr. Jake Shelley was recently named the recipient of the 2010 FACSS Student Award, which recognizes the top paper submitted to the FACSS conference by a graduate student in that year.  The title of Jake’s award-winning presentation will be: ” Investigations of Fundamental Processes and Ion Chemistry of the Flowing Atmospheric-Pressure Afterglow and Low-Temperature Plasma Probe Ambient Ionization Sources“, and the paper is to be presented as part of the invited session in honour of the silver anniversary celebration of JAAS. Jake is currently a graduate student in the group of Prof. Gary M Hieftje at Indiana University where he and his colleagues employ spectroscopic techniques to investigate ionization and excitation mechanisms within several plasma-based molecular ionization sources for mass spectrometry.  Congratulations Jake!

(Carsten Engelhard, University of Münster)

Prof. Luisa Orsi was recently awarded the 2010 Heinrich-Emanuel-Merck Award for Analytical Science.  The award includes a monetary reward of 15.000 € and was presented on August 31^st 2010 at the 3^rd EuCheMS Chemistry Congress. This year more than 3000 scientists from all over Europe and the world attended the meeting, which is held in Nuremberg, Germany.

Prof. Luisa Torsi (Picture: University of Bari)

Luisa Orsi is awarded for her exceptional research on chemical and biological sensors based on organic thin-film field effect transistors. A most well deserved recognition. Congratulations!

Merck grants the prize since 1988 to mark the centennial of the first standardization of analytical methods by Merck chemist Dr. Karl Krauch. The award bears the name of Heinrich Emanuel Merck, who defined the company’s commitment to quality by the claim “I shall always guarantee the purity of my preparations”.

Further reading:  EuCHeMS: http://www.euchems-congress2010.org/