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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.

OSA Corporate Member News is available in the Corporate Gateway section of OSA.org

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

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

OSA Members in the News
2010 - present
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