OSA Members in the News

OSA members are the world's leading scientists, educators, engineers, students and business professionals with an interest in optics and photonics. We invite you to read about some of the OSA newsmakers below. You may also submit news about yourself or a colleague.

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June 2013

• OSA Fellow Henry Kapteyn Elected as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• OSA Fellow and Ultrafast Laser Pioneer Robert Alfano Receives 2013 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science

May 2013

• OSA Fellow Peter Delfyett Speaks at University of Central Florida College of Arts & Humanities and College of Engineering & Computer Science Spring 2013 Commencement Ceremonies
• OSA Fellow Mohammad Karim Named Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs for the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

April 2013

• European Physical Society Presents OSA Fellow Federico Capasso with 2013 Prize for Applied Aspects of Quantum Electronics and Optics
• OSA Member Robert Hadfield Receives J&E Hall Gold Medal of the Institute of Refrigeration
• U.S. Office of Naval Research Names OSA Members Sasan Fathpour and Zhaowei Liu Recipients of Young Investigator Award

March 2013

• OSA Fellow Lihong Wang Receives Grant from the National Science Foundation to Study Oxygen Consumption in Cells
• OSA Member Janice Hudgings Appointed Dean of Pomona College
• OSA Member Jie Qiao Meets with U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter, Discusses Women in Science, Engineering, and Entrepreneurship Program
• OSA Member Alexandra Boltasseva Receives 2013 Materials Research Society’s (MRS) Outstanding Young Investigator Award
• OSA Fellow Nick Holonyak, Jr. Elected Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

February 2013

• OSA Fellows Paul Corkum and Ferenc Krausz Win 2013 King Faisal International Prize for Science
• OSA Member Baohong Tuan Receives National Science Foundation Grant for Hybrid Imaging System
• OSA Members Akshit Peer, Guatam Prabhakar Receive Best Paper Award at The International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics
• OSA Member Anne L'Huillier Receives Carl Zeiss Research Award

January 2013

• Queen Knights OSA Fellow David Payne for Work in Photonics
• James Wynne Awarded 2013 Russ Prize 

December 2012

• UC Irvine Honors OSA Member Donn Silberman for Work in Optics Education Programs

November 2012

• UA College of Optical Sciences Names Kyle J. Myers Alumna of the Year

October 2012

• David Wineland Wins Nobel Prize for Work in Quantum Physics
• LED Inventor Nick Holonyak Honored by University of Illinois

September 2012

• David Huang Receives António Champalimaud Vision Award for Co-Invention of OCT
• Amy Eskilson Named President and CEO of Inrad Optics
• David Williams Awarded $630,000 Prize for ‘Major Breakthrough’ in Vision Science
• OSA Fellow Mustafa Abushagur Elected Prime Minister of Libya

August 2012

• Jerry Kuper Named Senior Product Manager of North America at Toptica
• Charles Munnerlyn Donates $1 Million to the American Academy of Ophthalmology to
  Support Laser Eye Surgery and Improve Global Eye Care
• Azad Siahmakoun Named Associate Dean of the Faculty at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
• Volker Sick Honored With SAE International Leadership Citation

July 2012

• Ian Coddington Among Three NIST Researchers to Earn Presidential Honor
• Ping Yang Named Head of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences
• Mourad Zghal Appointed President of the Optical Society of Tunisia
• Dr. Phillip Sprangle Receives Fred E. Saalfeld Award

June 2012

• Drs. Ishwar Aggarwal and Jas Sanghera Receive Arthur E. Bisson Prize for Naval Technology Achievement Award
• Thomas Elsässer Receives Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics 2012

May 2012

• Stephen Boppart Recognized with Hans Sigrist Prize
• Peng Khaw Begins Term as ARVO President
• Olga Kocharovskaya among Two Physics Faculty Honored by Texas A&M Sigma Xi Chapter
• Jennifer Kruschwitz Named 2012 Technology Woman of the Year
• Eric Mazur Awarded Honorary Degree from Polytechnique Montréal and the Université de Montréal

April 2012

• Ofer Levi Leads Design of Compact, Neuroimaging Prototype for Studying Effects of Stroke, Epilepsy
• Anatol Khilo and Marcus Dahlem 'Create Buzz in Research Circles

March 2012

• Kumar Patel Inducted into the U.S. National Inventors Hall of Fame
• Charles W. Clark Gives Lecture on 'How Quantum Mechanics Cracked the Nuclear Code'

February 2012

• Duncan Moore Authors Op-Ed in New York Times: No Rust in Rochester
• Anderson Gomes, Brazil’s Secretary of Education, Meets with U.S. Officials to Sign Education Agreement
• Joseph Shaw Honored with MSU Top Faculty Award 2012
• John Ballato Featured in GSA Business Article: Optical Fiber Has Bright Future in S.C.

January 2012

• Alfredo Dubra wins $250,000 Grant from Research to Prevent Blindness

December 2011

• George Welch Named Head Of Texas A&M Physics and Astronomy
• Margaret Murnane Selected by President Obama to Chair National Medal of Science Committee

November 2011

• OSA Fellow Mustafa Abushagur Named Deputy Prime Minister of Libya

October 2011

• Mohammad Karim Takes on Oversight Roles with Research Association
• Pete Roos, John Carlsten, Richard Powell, Randy Reibel, Jason Brasseur Featured in MSU Magazine - With Laser Intensity
• Nick Holonyak, LED Inventor, Joins Engineering and Science Hall of Fame
• Steven Chu Named R&D Magazine's 2011 Scientist of the Year

September 2011

• John Arkwright, Abdesselam Bouzerdou, Benjamin Eggleton, David Evans, and David Moss win Australia’s Prestigious 2011 Eureka Prize

August 2011

• OSA Board Member Thomas Koch Named New Dean of University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences
• Xi-Cheng Zhang Named New Director of University of Rochester's Institute of Optics
• Alexandra Boltasseva Among World's 'Top Young Innovators'

July 2011

• Randy Bartels and Sterling Backus Develop an X-ray Source: From X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers to Biomedical Imaging

June 2011

• Bahram Jalali Named to Northrop Grumman Endowed Opto-Electronic Chair in Electrical Engineering
• Joseph Eberly Gifted with Family Endowment as 'Professor of Practice'

May 2011

• Aydogan Ozcan and UCLA Team Show Lens-Free 3D Optical Tomography
• Peter Moulton Named an IEEE Fellow
• Jun Ye Elected to National Academy of Sciences

April 2012

• Ofer Levi Leads Design of Compact, Neuroimaging Prototype for Studying Effects of Stroke, Epilepsy
• Anatol Khilo and Marcus Dahlem 'Create Buzz in Research Circles

March 2012

• Kumar Patel Inducted into the U.S. National Inventors Hall of Fame
• Charles W. Clark Gives Lecture on 'How Quantum Mechanics Cracked the Nuclear Code'

February 2012

• Duncan Moore Authors Op-Ed in New York Times: No Rust in Rochester
• Anderson Gomes, Brazil’s Secretary of Education, Meets with U.S. Officials to Sign Education Agreement
• Joseph Shaw Honored with MSU Top Faculty Award 2012
• John Ballato Featured in GSA Business Article: Optical Fiber Has Bright Future in S.C.

January 2012

• Alfredo Dubra wins $250,000 Grant from Research to Prevent Blindness

December 2011

• George Welch Named Head Of Texas A&M Physics and Astronomy
• Margaret Murnane Selected by President Obama to Chair National Medal of Science Committee

November 2011

• OSA Fellow Mustafa Abushagur Named Deputy Prime Minister of Libya

October 2011

• Mohammad Karim Takes on Oversight Roles with Research Association
• Pete Roos, John Carlsten, Richard Powell, Randy Reibel, Jason Brasseur Featured in MSU Magazine - With Laser Intensity
• Nick Holonyak, LED Inventor, Joins Engineering and Science Hall of Fame
• Steven Chu Named R&D Magazine's 2011 Scientist of the Year

September 2011

• John Arkwright, Abdesselam Bouzerdou, Benjamin Eggleton, David Evans, and David Moss win Australia’s Prestigious 2011 Eureka Prize

August 2011

• OSA Board Member Thomas Koch Named New Dean of University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences
• Xi-Cheng Zhang Named New Director of University of Rochester's Institute of Optics
• Alexandra Boltasseva Among World's 'Top Young Innovators'

July 2011

• Randy Bartels and Sterling Backus Develop an X-ray Source: From X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers to Biomedical Imaging

June 2011

• Bahram Jalali Named to Northrop Grumman Endowed Opto-Electronic Chair in Electrical Engineering
• Joseph Eberly Gifted with Family Endowment as 'Professor of Practice'

May 2011

• Aydogan Ozcan and UCLA Team Show Lens-Free 3D Optical Tomography
• Peter Moulton Named an IEEE Fellow
• Jun Ye Elected to National Academy of Sciences

April 2011

• Rod C. Alferness Named Dean of the College of Engineering at UC Santa Barbara
• Karin Ezbiansky Pavese Appointed Adjunct Professor at SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry
• Alexander Balandin Wins Pioneer of Nanotechnology Award for 2011
• Amnon Yariv Receives IEEE 2011 Photonics Award

February 2011

• Randy Bartels receives $1 million Keck Foundation Grant
• A. Douglas Stone and Hui Cao Develop Anti-laser

January 2011

• Gordon Day elected as 2012 IEEE President
• George Kattawar named Distinguished Texas Scientist of the Year for 2011

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