Students in the Spotlight

OSC is proud to house some of the most talented students of optics in the world. Provided below is a collection of their recent accomplishments.

2011–2012

May 10, 2012. Ph.D. student Laura Coyle, who is advised by James H. Burge, won a Philanthropic Educational Organization scholarship, which supports women seeking doctoral degrees.

May 10, 2012. Several OSC seniors were recognized for their outstanding capstone projects at Engineering Design Day: Patrick Llull's team won the Texas Instruments Analog Design Contest Award for "Jockey 'Smart Helmet' for Horse Racing"; the "Remote Listening Device" group, comprised in part by Matthew Hamel, Nicholas Melena, Nicholas Neuenfeldt and Adam Slagel, received the Rincon Research Best Presentation Award; and the "Computational Optics" display, with Matthew Barnum, Joshua Brent, Nan Ding and Lena Wolfe was given the BAE Systems Best Overall Design Award.

May 3, 2012. The outstanding seniors for the class of 2012 are the very talented Jeffrey Chia and Joshua Brent. (As reported last week, Kali Wilson is this year's outstanding graduate student.)

May 3, 2012. And kudos to our valedictorians: Gregory Jacob for the bachelor's degree and Jed Hancock and Jae-Hoon Lee (both Ph.D. students) for the graduate programs.

April 26, 2012. Ph.D. student Christopher Summitt, who works under Lars Furenlid, not only won the Best of Show prize in the 2012 UA Eye on the Environment photography competition, but an additional honorable mention.

April 26, 2012. Kali Wilson, who works with associate professor of optical sciences and physics Brian Anderson, was named the OSC's 2012 Outstanding Graduate Student.

April 19, 2012. The Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging Technical Program Committee has accepted "Experimental Comparison of Computational Approaches to Focus Invariant Optical Systems" for its meeting in June. Authors include OSC seniors Matthew Barnum, Joshua Brent, Nan Ding and Lena Wolfe, as well as College of Engineering students Saul Corrales and Kate Green.

April 5, 2012. Second-year graduate student Raisa Trubko has been awarded with a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship; her adviser is Alexander Cronin, an assistant professor of physics and of optical sciences.

April 5, 2012. Congratulations to all of the college's talented scholarship winners (and many thanks to the generous donors who made these awards possible):

Cushing Scholarship	Hannah Grant, Senior
DeBell Scholarship	Brittany Lynn, Ph.D. Student
Gaskill Scholarship	Dale Karas, Senior Lee Johnson, Junior
Marathay Family Scholarship	Oybek Kholiqov, Junior
Moore Scholarship	Brian Wheelwright, Ph.D. Student
Palmer Scholarship	Austin Wilson, Senior
Slater Scholarship	Christine Bradley, Ph.D. Student Blake Coughenour, Ph.D. Student
Tipton Scholarship	Dale Karas, Senior Jason Meyer, Senior Lajos Pelikan, Senior Janelle Pilar, Senior Zachary Walker, Junior
Wolfe Family Scholarship	Abhinav Jha, Ph.D. Student Zach Newman, Ph.D. Student Tianquan Su, Ph.D. Student

Jan. 26, 2012. The Fall 2011 winners of the Rolyn Optics Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Awards for the College of Optical Sciences are Sawyer Campbell, Adoum Mahamat and Oscar Martinez, as nominated by Rolf Binder, Michael Nofziger and Robert A. Norwood, respectively.

Jan. 26, 2012. Timothy Renkoski, a Ph.D. candidate in Urs Utzinger's lab, is one of the University's six winners of the Marshall Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, for his dissertation titled “Multispectral Autofluorescence Imaging of Human Surgical Specimens and Live Cells: Diagnostic Potential of UV-C Excitation and Formulated Ratio Images.”

Oct. 27, 2011. And congratulations go to Jeffrey Chia, who was awarded the 2011–2012 Lockheed Martin Scholarship this week.

Oct. 20, 2011. Congratulations go to the University of Arizona Student Optics Chapter — breaking news reports that SOCk received the OSA Student Chapter Excellence Award at the 2011 Frontiers in Optics conference.

Sept. 15, 2011. Abhinav Jha, Nicolas Vandamme and Samantha White are the recipients of the Spring 2011 Rolyn Optics Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards. Abhinav is recognized for his work in OPTI 536 by Harrison H. Barrett, Nicolas for his work in OPTI 370 by Rolf Binder and Samantha for her work in OPTI 471B by Hong Hua.

July 21, 2011. Kevin Newman, B.S. in OSE 2011, and senior Kyle Stephens were part of a team selected for NASA's Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program. Their crew, called ANGEL after the project title "Analysis of Gravitational Effects on Liquid Lenses," was advised by Regents' Professor J. Roger P. Angel and supported by the LOFT group.

May 26, 2011. The Society for Information Display awarded Xinda Hu, a second-year Ph.D. student in Hong Hua's lab, the Distinguished Student Paper Award at its 2011 international symposium for his work with Hua on "A Depth-Fused Multi-Focal-Plane Display Prototype Enabling Focus Cues in Stereoscopic Displays."

May 26, 2011. Yuhao Wang, a Ph.D. student in James H. Burge's laboratory, received the Outstanding Paper Award from the American Precision Optics Manufacturers Association at the 2011 SPIE Optifab conference in Rochester, N.Y.

2010–2011

April 7, 2011. The Academic Programs office is extraordinarily proud to announce Luca Caucci, a Ph.D. student in Harrison H. Barrett's lab, as OSC's Outstanding Graduate Student for 2011. Read more about Luca's accomplishments.

March 31, 2011. Congratulations go to Christine Bradley, who was awarded the 2011 Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award for the College of Optical Sciences.