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Teen optogenetics project takes top NIDA Addiction Science Award 05/18/2012 A project that maps dopamine circuits in the prefrontal cortex using optogenetics was given top honors in this year's annual Addiction Science Awards at the 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), a large ...
Dr. Jan Meiß recognized for organic solar cells with "Green Photonics" Award 05/17/2012 Dresden, Germany - Scientist Jan Meiß has been awarded with the "Green Photonics“ for young academics on the 23rd of April 2012 at the Hanover Fair.
Solar education program announced by the SunPower Foundation and One Million Lights 05/17/2012 San Jose, CA--The SunPower Foundation announced that it is teaming up with One Million Lights, a Palo Alto-based nonprofit that provides solar lighting to rural communities globally, to launch a solar education program for K-12...
R. Barry Johnson honored with SPIE/OSA book writing award 05/16/2012 Campbell, CA--SPIE and the OSA have named R. Barry Johnson of Alabama A&M University as the recipient of the societies' joint 2012 Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award.
	'Microbubbles' promising for early cancer screening garner research award 05/14/2012 Coupling the chemical sensitivity of optical imaging and tissue-penetrating properties of ultrasound imaging, Carolyn Schutt, a Ph.D. student in bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego, is developing an imagin...
Fraunhofer IWS organizing summer school for laser systems 05/07/2012 Fraunhofer IWS is organizing a weeklong International Summer School for undergraduates and Ph.D students to study laser technology: high-speed laser cutting, surface structuring, additive manufacturing, and more.
	MIT's Ed Boyden awarded research prize for optogenetics work 05/04/2012 The first A. F. Harvey engineering research prize from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), which is a prize of £300,000, was awarded to Professor Ed S. Boyden of the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT)...
Upcoming webcast to present the basics of ion-beam sputtering 05/03/2012 On Wednesday, May 16, at 1 p.m. EST, a free, live, one-hour webcast will provide an introduction to ion-beam sputtering, how it works, and why it is important to today's optics industry, which continually calls for higher quali...
LIA laser safety training courses available throughout 2012 04/26/2012 The Laser Institute of America (LIA) has several laser safety training courses on the calendar this year for personnel in research, industrial, and medical laser facilities.
OSA gets set to take part in USA Science and Engineering Festival 04/24/2012 Washington, DC--The Optical Society (OSA) will serve as a partner and exhibitor in the USA Science and Engineering Festival set to take place in Washington, DC, this weekend (April 28–29).
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...
Miniature spectrometers: Learn about their purpose and applications 04/19/2012 Nashua, NH--A one-hour educational webcast on Tuesday, May 1 (2 p.m. EST) will cover the basics of miniature spectrometers and their evolution as a tool in today's spectroscopy applications.
NKT Photonics' Peter Moselund to lead CREOL seminar on supercontinuum mid-IR sources 04/18/2012 Orlando, FL--The University of Central Florida's (UCF) College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL) will host a seminar covering supercontinuum mid-infrared (IR) sources, to take place on Friday, April 20.
Supercomputing expo at LANL to showcase local student research 04/17/2012 Los Alamos, NM--More than 200 New Mexico students and their teachers will convene at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) on April 23 and 24 for judging and the awards ceremony in the 22nd annual New Mexico Supercomputing Chal...
Small-animal optical imaging the focus of upcoming ENCITE workshop 04/13/2012 The European Network for Cell Imaging and Tracking Expertise (ENCITE), part of the European Institute for Biomedical Imaging Research (EIBIR), will host a workshop May 21–23 covering developments in cellular, whole-body optical...
	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 ...
	Dartmouth's Pogue to chair NIH biomedical imaging review panel 04/12/2012 Brian Pogue, Professor of Engineering and Dean of Graduate Studies at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH), was recently named Chair of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)'s new grant review panel for Biomedical Imaging Technolo...
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...
New X-wing to enhance JILA research 04/11/2012 Boulder, CO--A new wing with advanced laboratories has been opened at JILA, a joint institute of the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The new six-story wing will add 56,065 ...

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