The 2013 FACSS-SciX Award Podcast Series Sponsorship Opportunity Beginning in February 2013, Spectroscopy magazine will produce a podcast series highlighting the awards that will be granted at SciX 2013, the annual conference of the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS). The series is a collaboration between Spectroscopy and FACSS and its member organizations, and follows on the highly successful 2012 series, available at http://www.spectroscopyonline.com/podcasts. The 2013 series will consist of approximately 10 interviews, running from February through July, in Spectroscopy’s e-newsletter, The Wavelength. The interviews will be the winners of the following awards: The Charles Mann Award for Applied Raman Spectroscopy The FACSS/SciX Innovation Awards from 2012 The ANACHEM Award The Applied Spectroscopy William F. Meggers Award The Lester W. Strock Award The Coblentz Society's Craver Award The Lippincott Award The ACS Award Other Promotion of the Podcasts: The podcasts will be posted at http://www.spectroscopyonline.com/podcasts and appear on the home page of Spectroscopy’s web site Spectroscopy also will promote the podcasts through Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook The FACSS organization will post links to the podcasts on the FACSS and SciX web sites FACSS will also promote the podcasts through mailings to the FACSS lists Sponsorship Benefits: Skyscraper ad on the Spectroscopy podcast page (http://www.spectroscopyonline.com/podcasts) Sponsor recognition, with banner ad, in the Spectroscopy newsletters in which the podcasts are distributed A short audio advertisement in each podcast For more information, contact: Stephanie Shaffer East Coast Sales Representative sshaffer@advanstar.com (508) 481-5885 Ed Fantuzzi Associate Publisher efantuzzi@advanstar.com (732) 346-3015 Mike Tessalone Science Group Publisher mtessalone@advanstar.com (732) 346-3016