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  Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Student Receives Travel Grant to OSA Renewable Energy and the Environment Congress

  20 November 2012
  The OSA Foundation (OSAF) is pleased to announce Dmitry S. Bodunov of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in Russia was this year’s recipient of a travel grant to the Optical Society’s (OSA) Renewable Energy and the Environment Congress that took place Nov. 11-14 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
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  A 3-D Light Switch for the Brain

  19 November 2012
  A new tool for neuroscientists delivers a thousand pinpricks of light to a chunk of gray matter smaller than a sugar cube. The new fiber-optic device, created by biologists and engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, is the first tool that can deliver precise points of light to a 3-D section of living brain tissue.
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  Human Eye Gives Researchers Visionary Design for New, More Natural Lens Technology

  13 November 2012
  Drawing heavily upon nature for inspiration, a team of researchers has created a new artificial lens that is nearly identical to the natural lens of the human eye.
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  Anne Matsuura Joins the Optical Society as Senior Science Advisor

  05 November 2012
  The Optical Society (OSA) announced today that Anne Matsuura will join their staff as a senior science advisor. In this role, Matsuura will assist with scientific and technical aspects of OSA’s programs and services, strategic development of global relationships, plus serve as an international and national government policy advisor for OSA.
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  Outstanding Student Researchers Honored at Frontiers in Optics 2012

  02 November 2012
  The OSA Foundation (OSAF) is pleased to announce the most recent student grant and scholarship recipients, recognized during the Optical Society’s (OSA) 96th Annual Meeting, Frontiers in Optics (FiO) 2012 in Rochester, N.Y.
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  Donald B. Keck Named Honorary Member of the Optical Society

  01 November 2012
  The Board of Directors of the Optical Society (OSA) announced today that Donald B. Keck has been elected as the society’s newest Honorary Member. Keck was chosen for his “breakthrough contributions to the field of optical communications, including the invention of the first low-loss optical fiber, and for a history of service to OSA.”
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  First-ever 3-D Stress Map of Developing Embryonic Heart Sheds Light on Why Defects Form

  31 October 2012
  As a human fetus develops, its heart has to keep pace with the new body’s ever-growing demands. Much of this is controlled by following genetic blueprints, but the embryonic heart also matures in response to the intense stresses of pumping blood. For the first time, researchers have been able to visualize in 3-D the stresses induced by flowing blood in an embryonic heart.
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  OSA Lauds UNESCO for Adopting Proposal to Name 2015 the International Year of Light

  25 October 2012
  The Optical Society (OSA) today praised the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) decision to adopt a resolution declaring 2015 the International Year of Light.
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  Frontiers in Optics 2012 Wraps up in Rochester with Increased Attendance

  19 October 2012
  The Optical Society’s (OSA) Annual Meeting, Frontiers in Optics 2012, wrapped up Rochester, N.Y. yesterday, featuring nearly 900 presentations over five days—96 years after OSA was founded in this very city. Collocated with the American Physical Society Division of Laser Science’s annual meeting, Laser Science XXVII, FiO brought together more than 1,700 attendees—a significant increase over last year—covering the latest advances in all areas of optics and photonics – from adaptive optics and optical sensing to silicon photonics and quantum information science.
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  OSA Elects Philip Russell as 2013 Vice President

  16 October 2012
  The Optical Society (OSA) is pleased to announce that its members have elected Philip Russell of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany as its 2013 vice president. Three directors at large were also chosen during this year's election: Susana Marcos of Instituto de Optica, CSIC, in Spain, Lynn E. Nelson of AT&T Labs in Middletown, N.J., and Gregory J. Quarles of B.E. Meyers and Co., Inc. in Redmond, Wash.

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