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• Colleges at The Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, in Warsaw Poland are actively helping scientists and students displaced from Ukraine. Information of this effort can be found on their Facebook group. Alternatively go on their website for more information and contact details. 
• Science for Ukraine is an organization which aims to support scientists from Ukraine by promoting and listing opportunities across the globe. 
• A list composed and maintained by Ukraine Global Scholars, (the list is here)
• WaveJobs: Photonic Aid For Ukraine, the photonics employment-searching portal, is listing work and academic opportunities in photonics for those fleeing Ukraine in need of employement elsewhere. WaveJobs is actively accepting job postings from employers offering positions to refugees from Ukraine and is dedicated to creating a network of contacts between employers and those in need of opportunities.
• UNICEF is supporting health, nutrition, safe drinking water, sanitation, and protection for children and families caught in the conflict in Ukraine.
• The International Rescue Committee is preparing to provide critical aid to displaced families affected by conflict in Ukraine.
• International Committee of the Red Cross seeks to help people affected by the conflict and support the work of the Ukrainian Red Cross.
• Voices of Children is helping to provide psychological and psychosocial support to children affected by the Ukrainian conflict and helps them to overcome consequences of armed conflict. 
• Save the Children, which has been operating in Ukraine since 2014, is providing psychosocial support, distributing winter kits and hygiene kits and providing cash grants to families so they can meet basic needs such as food, rent, medicines, and other vital resources. 
• The UN Refugee Agency contributes to emergency relief efforts and helps provide humanitarian assistance to those in crisis. The UNHCR is currently taking donations to send aid to families in Ukraine.
• Caritas is a Polish charity organization currently accepting donations for the “Aid For Ukraine” fundraiser to supply urgent hygiene and basic material assistance along with financial assistance to people in need due to the invasion. 

Dear SfNIRS members

I wish you all a happy New Year!

As we reflect on 2021, we can all feel pride about our accomplishments in the past year.

The fNIRS 2018 meeting will be held in Tokyo, Japan on October 5-8, 2018.
We received 300 abstract submissions.Nearly 450 participants are expected to travel to Tokyo for this event. This is the biggest meeting for the society thus far. We also plan to have three early morning sessions that will involve discussion of specific issues for fNIRS research.
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By Felipe Orihuela-Espina

The recent special issue on “Algorithms for Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, Cerebral Oximetry and Near-Infrared Imaging” in the journal Algorithms was announced. It covers new developments regarding algorithms, methods and ideas related to signal processing and data analysis for fNIRS, cerebral oximetry and NIRI measurements.
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By Sergio Novi

Last April, the Biomedical Optics Lab (LOB) at the University of Campinas (Prof. R. Mesquita, PI) held the second version of its 2-day fNIRS training course. The course was a success, attended by more than 20 researchers who were highly enthusiastic about learning material ranging from the basics to state-of-the-art issues in fNIRS.

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By Sabrina Brigadoi and Alessandro Torricelli

From June 13^thto June 15^th the first Joint Italian-French Workshop on “Cerebral Oximetry and functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (ifNIRS2018)” took place in Milan at Politecnico di Milano.
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