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During the plenary session of the 66th Annual Denver X-Ray Conference, the following awards were presented. The 2017 Jenkins Award, recognizing lifetime achievement in the advancement of the use of X-rays in materials analysis, was presented to James Kaduk, Polycrystallography, Inc. and Illinois Institute of Technology, for his broad achievements in discovery, research, and education in the use of X-rays for materials analysis. The 2017 Barrett Award, in recognition of outstanding contributions to powder diffraction, was presented to Daniel Louer, France, for his involvement with powder diffraction in indexing, line profile analysis, and ab initio structure solution, as well as his service to the community through ICDD and EPDIC. Dr. Louer was unable to attend DXC and will accept the award at the ICDD Annual Meetings in 2018. The 2017 Jerome B. Cohen Student Award, recognizing outstanding achievements of student research in X-ray analysis, was won by Howard Joress, Cornell University, for his work, A Polycapillary-Based Method of Monochromatic Time-Resolved X-ray Reflectivity. Howard presented his work at the conference during the General XRD session. For further information, visit the Web page, http://www.dxcicdd.com/ The recipient of the 12th Asada Award, which is presented by the Discussion Group of X-ray analysis, Japan, in memory of the late Professor Ei-ichi Asada (1924–2005) to promising young scientists in X-ray analysis fields in Japan, is Dr. Koji Nakanishi (Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga), “Advanced instrumentation in soft-X-ray absorption spectroscopy for innovative battery research.” The ceremony was held during the 53rd Annual Conference on X-Ray Chemical Analysis, at Tokushima University, Tokushima. For additional news about X-ray analysis and other spectroscopy sciences, please browse the Wiley website. http://www.SpectroscopyNow.com