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2017 American Microchemical Society Benedetti Pichler Award

Somenath Mitra is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Science and the Exec. Director Otto York Center for Environmental Engineering and Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).   He received his BS in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur, India), MS in Environmental Engineering and PHD in Analytical Chemistry from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL in 1988. He was a National Research Council Fellow at US EPA, Research Triangle Park from 1988 to 1991 before joining

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Message from the EAS President

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The year 2017 begins a new journey for EAS with our move to the Crowne Plaza Princeton – Conference Center in Plainsboro, NJ.  We are very grateful for the past 25 years in Somerset, have many fond memories of the times we spent, and truly are appreciative of the consistency it afforded.   However, over the past few years we have consistently heard feedback from our exhibitors and conferees that the facility no longer met the needs for EAS and that there was a desire

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2017 – EAS is MOVING!

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EAS is moving to Princeton. EAS President Justin Pennington announced that EAS 2017 will be held at the Crowne Plaza Princeton – Conference Center in Plainsboro, NJ. This facility is well suited to the size of the symposium and expo and will allow all activities to take place under one roof. We are sad to leave the venues in Somerset that have hosted EAS since the 90′s but we are excited to open a new chapter in Princeton. SAVE these

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Call for Posters is now OPEN

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We invite you to be part of the 2017 program by contributing a paper for a poster presentation.  EAS seeks contributions from scientists in all areas of analysis, which make its program uniquely strong. POSTER Abstract Submission deadline is September 1, 2017 ORAL Abstract Submission deadline closed May 26, 2017 We hope you will consider joining us; click here for submission details. Join us at the 56th Eastern Analytical Symposium and Exposition November 13-15, 2017 at our NEW venue The Crowne Plaza Princeton-Conference Center in Plainsboro, NJ

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2017 EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in Separation Science

Christopher J. Welch is Chief Scientific Officer for Welch Innovation, LLC, an independent research and consulting firm located in Cranbury, NJ USA.  He received a Ph.D. degree in Organic Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, under the direction of William H. Pirkle.  Dr. Welch has worked in a variety of fields within the chemical industry, including discovery synthesis of agrochemicals (Velsicol-Sandoz), development of reagents for improved immunodiagnostic assays (Abbott Laboratories), development and commercialization of chromatographic stationary phases, reagents and

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2017 EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in NMR

Dr. Bernhard Blümich is professor of Macromolecular Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University, Germany since 1993. He holds a Master of Science degree (1976) in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., a Diploma in Physics (1977) and a PhD in Physical Chemistry (1981) from Technische Universität Berlin in Germany. He was a member of staff at the Department of Macromolecular Chemistry at the University of Bayreuth (1983), Germany, and then at the Max Planck-Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz

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A tribute to Herk Felder (1951-2016)

The EAS family has lost one of their own: Hercules Felder passed away this month, too soon; he was 64. We’ve all been stunned by this news. Herk was a pillar of the organization, a pioneer and, true to his first name, a force of nature. Herk had been with EAS for 35 years, serving as EAS’ first African-American president in 1994 and continued to actively support EAS even after retiring from a successful career in NJ and moving to

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Message from the 2016 President of the Governing Board

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“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” – J. R. R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings Welcome to the 55th Eastern Analytical Symposium and Exposition (EAS).  Our theme this year, “Analytical Chemistry Opens Doors,” was chosen as I mused on the varied career paths that the Governing Board members have taken.  We all have

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American Microchemical Society Benedetti-Pichler Award

Merlin Bruening is a Professor of Chemistry at Michigan State University.  He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 1989 and an M.S. in Chemistry in 1990 from Brigham Young University.  In 1995, Dr. Bruening obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rohovot, Israel, where he worked under the direction of Abraham Shanzer.  After an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship at Texas A&M University with Richard Crooks, Merlin joined the faculty at Michigan State University in 1997. 

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