Dr Donald J. Dahm is to receive the 2014 Gerald S. Birth Award for two papers he published in JNIRS—Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy in 2013.

JNIRS—Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy has published a Special Issue on Milk and Milk Products, guest edited by Tiziana Cattaneo and Steve Holroyd, containing papers reporting new developments and uses of NIR spectroscopy as a valuable tool along the full dairy chain.

Professors Takuma Genkawa and Naoto Kakuta are the winners of the IM Publications NIR Poster Prize at ICAVS-7, held in Kobe, Japan, at the end of August 2013.

NIR-2017 will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, following the vote by ICNIRS members at NIR-2013.

The NIR-2013 conference publicity is all about “good vibrations”, and the conference certainly seems to be developing into an exciting mixture of science, interaction and an attractive venue.

ICNIRS is delighted to announce that the Tomas Hirschfeld Award winner for 2013 is Dr Daniel Cozzolino of the School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide, Australia.