The First Winner of the Peter Griffiths Award Is Announced!
The Peter Griffiths Award is named in honor of legendary Society for Applied Spectroscopy member, SAS President, and long serving Editor-in-Chief and Editor of Applied Spectroscopy, Professor Peter Griffiths. This annual award, consisting of a monetary honorarium, a plaque, and an SAS membership, is presented to the authors of the best paper published annually in Applied Spectroscopy Practica. Financial support from the Shimadzu Corporation, Peter Griffiths, and others will ensure the award’s longevity within the suite of impactful Society for Applied Spectroscopy awards for many years to come.
The award selection committee are excited to announce that Dr Sara Fraser-Miller, Flinders University, Australia, and co-authors Mitchell C. Chalmers, Teemu Tomberg, and Keith Gordon, were recently selected as the first recipients of the Peter Griffiths Award for their paper “Discriminating Model Microcalcifications Immersed and Under Varying Depths of Wax Using Deep Low-Frequency Raman Spectroscopy” in Volume 2, Issue 4 of Applied Spectroscopy Practica. Journal Editor-in-Chief Dr Mary Kate Donais says of this research, “The scientific rigor, novelty, and potential impactful of this award-winning work made it an immediate standout among the manuscripts considered. We congratulate Dr Fraser-Miller and her team for their outstanding work and achievement.” Please find the author bios here.
