FACSS STUDENT AWARD AND TOMAS B. HIRSCHFELD SCHOLAR AWARD

CHARLES MANN AWARD FOR APPLIED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY

FACSS DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD

FACSS INNOVATION AWARDS

SAS STUDENT POSTER AWARDS AND FACSS POSTER AWARDS

ACS DIVISION OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY AWARD

AES BLUE FINGERS STUDENT AWARD

AES LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

AES MID-CAREER AWARD

ANACHEM AWARD

SAS WILLIAM F. MEGGERS AWARD

COBLENTZ SOCIETY CRAVER AWARD

ELLIS R. LIPPINCOTT AWARD

EMERGING LEADER IN MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY AWARD

IRDG CHALMERS AND DENT STUDENT TRAVEL AWARD

LESTER W. STROCK AWARD

ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY AWARDS

SAS UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT TRAVEL GRANT

WILLIAM G. FATELEY STUDENT AWARD

SAS ATOMIC SECTION STUDENT AWARD

FACSS Innovation Awards

The FACSS Innovations Awards were founded in 2011 as part of the 2011 FACSS meeting at the suggestion of Prof. Pavel Matousek (Program Chair) and approved by the FACSS Governing Board.

These awards are currently given for the most innovative and outstanding new research advancements debuted orally at the SciX Conference. All program areas are included. Only research findings presented for the first time in the public domain qualify for entry (work based on submitted papers not yet published electronically or in print at the time of abstract submission qualifies too). Only papers submitted by their authors during the SciX conference paper submission process will be considered for these awards. Finalists are selected for presentations by a panel of judges and all finalist present their work at a special plenary session at the SciX conference. Award winners are selected by the judging panel based on the quality of the work presented, responses provided to the judges' questions after the plenary presentation, and responses to audience questions.

Each award includes:

• A total cash prize of $1500
• A plaque for each author
• A publicity campaign based on the awardees and their work

Click here for information on how to apply for the Innovation Award 2019

FACSS Innovation Award Recipients 2018

Aleksandra Ros and Benedikt Schwarz

The 2018 FACSS Innovation Award was split between two of the four finalists.

Drs. Ros and Schwarz will split the cash prize of $1500.

Alexandra Ros (Arizona State University);

“Electrically Triggered Water-in-Oil Droplets for Serial Femtosecond Crystallography)”

Benedikt Schwarz (Technische Universität Wien);

“Interband Cascade Laser Frequency Combs: A New Tool for Miniaturization"

Past Recipients

2017 INNOVATION AWARD WINNER:
Optical Reflection and Waveguiding of Sound in Free Space
Daniel Kazal¹, Ellen Holthoff², Brian Cullum¹; ¹University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 
²Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD

2016 INNOVATION AWARD WINNER:
An Inexpensive Medical Device for Barrett’s Esophagus Screening; Rohith Reddy^{1, 2},
Michalina Gora^1,2, Jing Dong^{1, 2}, Matthew Beatty^{, 2}, Wolfgang Trasischker^{1, 2}, Kanwarpal Singh^1,2,
Amna Soomro^{, 2}, Catriona Grant^{, 2}, Mireille Rosenberg^{, 2}, Guillermo Tearney^{1, 2}; ¹Harvard Medical School; ²Massachusetts General Hospital

Interview with Rohith Reddy by Spectroscopy

2015 INNOVATION AWARD WINNERS:
Five-dimensional Single Particle Tracking in Live Cells; Ning Fang¹, Yan Gu²,Kuangcai Chen^1,2, Tian Xia⁴; ¹Georgia State University; ²Iowa State University; ³Ames Laboratory, USDOE; ⁴Huazhong University of Science & 

Technology

SERS in Live 3D Cell Cultures as a New Tool for Drug Discovery; Colin Campbell¹, Lauren Jamieson¹, Pierre Bagnaninchi¹, David Harrison² Victoria Camus; 

¹University of Edinburgh; ²University of St Andrews

2014 INNOVATION AWARD WINNER:

Sub-PPM Detection Limits in Powder X-Ray Diffraction Guided by Second Harmonic Generation Imaging; Garth Simpson, Purdue University
Interview with Garth Simpson by Spectroscopy Magazine

2013 INNOVATION AWARD WINNERS:
Imaging Quantum Effects in Biological Systems; Gregory S. Engel, The University of Chicago
Interview with Gregory Engel by Spectroscopy Magazine

Portable Spectrometry: Making Good Use of CMOS Detectors; Alexander Scheeline¹, Thu Anh Bui^1,2; ¹SpectroClick, Inc.,  ²Vietnam National University Hanoi      Interview with Alexander Scheeline by Spectroscopy Magazine

2012 INNOVATION AWARD WINNER:
Rohit Bhargava, University of Illinois, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Advancing Infrared Microscopy Instrumentation by Theory and Computation; Rohit Bhargava, P. Scott Carney, Rohith Reddy, Kevin Yeh, Thomas van Dijk, Matthew Gelber, Matthew V. Schulmerich; University of Illinois, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

2011 INNOVATION AWARD WINNERS
Ultrasound Enhanced ATR mid-IR Fibre Optic Probe for Spectroscopy of Particles in Suspensions; Cosima Koch, Markus Brandstetter, Stefan Radel, Bernhard Lendl; Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Interview with Koch and Lendl
Large-Area Standoff Planetary Raman Measurements Using a Novel Spatial Heterodyne Fourier Transform Raman Spectrometer; S. Michael Angel1, Nathaniel R. Gomer1, Shiv K. Sharma2, J. Chance Carter3; 1University of South Carolina, 2University of Hawaii, 3Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Interview with Angel
Single Molecule Fluorescence Imaging Studies of Dynamic Processes in Reversed Phase Chromatographic Materials; Justin Cooper, Eric Peterson, Joel Harris, University of Utah

Interview with Cooper
Laser Ablation Molecular Isotopic Spectrometry - New Dimension of LIBS ; Alexander Bol'shakov¹, Richard Russo^1,2, Xianglei Mao², Dale Perry², Osman Sorkhabi², Chris McKay³; ¹Applied Spectra, Inc., Fremont, CA, ²LBNL, Berkeley, CA, ³NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA

Interview with Bol'shakov

All attendees are eligible for the award irrespective of educational level or professional vocation, and authors opt-in to be considered for the award simply by marking a single check-box during abstract submission.  However, the FACSS Innovation Awards are limited to the newest, cutting-edge, unpublished research results.  Authors should carefully read the list of conditions attendant to this award to make certain the work is eligible.