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UAlbany CNSE helps launch 'Be the Change for Kids Innovation Awards'

04/23/2012 Albany, NY--A new partnership between the University at Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) and the New York State School Boards Association (NYSSBA) will reward innovative local school programs that he...
Xavier Intes, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rensselaer educator receives NSF award to advance noninvasive optical imaging method

04/13/2012 Xavier Intes, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has won a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to further ...

Photonics among subjects of Heriot-Watt University research projects to obtain funding

04/12/2012

Edinburgh, Scotland--Last month, Heriot-Watt University announced the first six collaborative research projects to be funded by the Heriot-Watt Crucible Interdisciplinary Project Fund.

Two Johns Hopkins engineers win Navy's 2012 Young Investigators award

04/12/2012 Baltimore, MD--Two engineers at Johns Hopkins University, Mounya Elhilali and Mark Foster, are among 26 scholars nationwide selected to share in more than $13 million in research funding through the Office of Naval Research’s Y...

Edmund Optics launches Norman Edmund Inspiration Award

04/11/2012

Barrington, NJ--Optical components maker Edmund Optics launched its Norman Edmund Inspiration Award, which honors the contributions made by Norman Edmund, the company's founder, to advance the science of optics.

New award to recognize innovative biophotonics contributions

04/10/2012 The Optical Society (OSA) and the OSA Foundation (OSAF) have established the Michael S. Feld Biophotonics Award, which honors Feld's fundamental contributions in Raman spectroscopy to diagnose tissues and image diseases via end...

UAlbany Nanocollege undergrad honored for photoluminescence work

04/09/2012 Albany, NY--Sheila Smith, a sophomore at the University of Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) majoring in nanoengineering, has been named a recipient of the prestigious 2012 Barry M. Goldwater Scholars...

OSA names 2012 William F. Meggers Award recipient

03/22/2012 Rochester, NY--Xi-Cheng Zhang, Ph.D., director of the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics, was recently named the 2012 recipient of the William F. Meggers Award by the Optical Society of America (OSA) for his contribu...

Donor to match up to $50k of Paul Bonenfant scholarship donations

03/14/2012

Helping to propel funding for the recently launched Paul A. Bonenfant Memorial Scholarship, an anonymous donor has agreed to a 1:1 match of any donation made after February 14, up to $50,000.

Nazanin Hoghooghi wins 2012 CREOL Student of the Year Award

02/22/2012

Orlando, FL--Nazanin Hoghooghi of the Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL) at the University of Central Florida recently won the 2011/2012 CREOL Student of the Year award and $500.

Edmund Optics accepting applications for 2012 higher-ed grant program

02/15/2012 Barrington, NJ--Edmund Optics is now accepting applications for their 2012 Higher Education Grant Program, which supports outstanding undergraduate and graduate optics programs in science, technology, engineering, and mathemati...

OSA names first Outstanding Young Professionals

02/09/2012 Washington, DC--The Optical Society (OSA) recently announced the recipients of the first annual Outstanding Young Professional Recognition, an honor that acknowledges significant contributions made by an OSA Young Professional ...

Grant for students supports OCT-related travel expenses

01/13/2012 OCT News, in collaboration with Sensors Unlimited – Goodrich ISR Systems, has launched its annual Student Travel Grant Awards program, which assists students with travel expenses for optical coherence tomography (OCT)-related c...

OSAF to establish Paul A. Bonenfant Memorial Scholarship

01/11/2012 Washington, DC--The OSA Foundation (OSAF) has launched a fundraising campaign to establish the Paul Anthony Bonenfant Memorial Scholarship, which will honor the late optical communications expert and analyst Paul Bonenfant and ...

BaySpec kicks off spectroscopy academic grant program

01/05/2012

Spectroscopy instrumentation maker BaySpec has launched its Academic Grant Program, which offers resources to public and private teaching institutions.

SPIE Education Outreach Grants Program seeking entries

12/30/2011

Bellingham, WA--In efforts to boost its education outreach mission, SPIE will be supporting optics- and photonics-related education outreach projects through a grants program.

ETP Photonics21 seeks applications for Student Innovation Award 2012

12/15/2011 Düsseldorf, Germany--The Research, Education and Training work group of the ETP Photonics21 technology platform is seeking applications for its Photonics21 Student Innovation Award, which recognizes students in the photonics fi...
Professor James Wilkinson, University of Southampton Optoelectronics Research Centre

U of Southampton's Wilkinson garners major funding for biophotonics program

11/28/2011 Professor James Wilkinson at the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant to develop tools for fast, low-cost point-of-care clinical diagnosti...

Edmund Optics grant recipients to make Vision 2011 appearance

11/02/2011 Barrington, NJ--Optical components provider Edmund Optics recently announced the winners of its 2011 Higher Education Grant Program, which recognizes outstanding optics and imaging programs at universities and non-profit resear...

Ocean Optics names Phase I winners of Blue Ocean Grants program

10/19/2011 Dunedin, FL--Ocean Optics has named the Phase I winners of its first Blue Ocean Grants and Challenges program, which seeks novel optical sensing ideas and technologies with the ultimate potential to change the world for the bet...