Eastern Analytical Symposium - Wednesday Nov 19th, 2008 
2008 NYSAS GOLD MEDAL AWARD SESSSION 

NEW YORK SECTION OF THE SOCIETY FOR APPLIED
SPECTROSCOPY GOLD MEDAL AWARD
Honoring Professor John F. Rabolt, University of
Delaware
 
Chair: Carolyn J. Pommier, Bristol-Myers Squibb
 
2:00 Presentation of the New York SAS Gold Medal
Award, by the New York Section of SAS
 
2:05 Planar Array IR (PA-IR): Evolution, Revolution or
Back to the Future? John F. Rabolt, University of
Delaware
 
2:35 Electrospinning and Spectroscopic Characterization
of Polymer Nanofibers, Carl Giller, University of
Delaware
 
3:05 The Search for Biological Microdomain Complexes:
from Model Systems to Intact Cells, Ira Levin,
National Institutes of Health
 
3:35 Break
 
3:55 Planar Array Infrared Spectroscopy: Can It Be Better,
Faster, Cheaper? Bruce Chase, DuPont
 
4:25 Surface-enhanced Vibrational Spectroscopy: Are the
Mechanisms of SERS and SEIRA Related? Peter
Griffiths, University of Idaho
Thank you to the 2008 NYSAS Sponsors of the Gold Medal Award.