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Dear Industrial Affiliate Member,
Commencement is right around the corner: Friday, May 15 for graduate students and Saturday May 16 for Bachelor's degree students. This is the first year The University of Arizona has hosted separate commencements for graduate and undergraduate students. The commencement ceremonies will be in the same location as in previous years -- UA's famed McKale Center -- and as always, graduates may invite as many guests as they wish. The event is free, open to the public, and everyone who would like to attend is very welcome.
As our current graduating students prepare to leave us to work for companies such as yours, we find that our classrooms and labs are going to be operating at peak capacity next year when our new students arrive. To date, we have admitted four students into the certification program, 20 into the Master's program, and an additional 28 into the PhD program. We look forward to introducing them to you in your August newsletter and in person at our next Affiliates' Workshop in October.
Once again Affiliates, thank you for your interest in our students and for your support.
CONTACT US
It's Always a Pleasure to Hear From You: Please feel free to contact Ms. Allison Huff, College of Optical Sciences Industrial Affiliates Coordinator, at any time. She can be reached by telephone at 520-626-6737 or by e-mail at allison@optics.arizona.edu
INDUSTRIAL AFFILIATES
OSC Calendar Events for May: The first few weeks of May will be enormously busy for our students and faculty members. We begin with Engineering Design Day -- the most important event of the year for our Seniors. Affiliates, many of you are sponsoring Senior capstone projects showcased at the event and, whether or not you sponsor a project, you are very welcome to attend UA's Engineering Design Day. On behalf of our students, we would like to express our appreciation to you. Your support and encouragement are critical to our students' future success. Thank you, Affiliates, for everything you do.
Save the Dates: Summer is usually a quiet time for us and offers a grand opportunity to catch-up our projects and prepare to welcome new students arriving in late summer.
STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND STAFF
Scholarship News: OSC graduating senior Matthew Schwab has been accepted into the prestigious OpSciTech European Master program. The program is a cooperative offered by six top-level academic partners in five countries. The program is supported by major European optics companies and receives financial support from the European Commission. Matthew received a full merit-based scholarship to the two-year program enabling him to study at the Institut d'Optique Graduate School for the first year year and then at another school such as Friedrich Schiller University Jena for the second year. At graduation, Matthew will be awarded Master's degrees from both institutions. Matthew's primary interests are in lasers and nonlinear optics, his goals include graduate education, and his wishlist includes travel and experiences with new cultures and languages. Congratulations Matthew.
Call for
Participation:
Our 3DVIS lab is
conducting a user interface evaluation of SCAPE, an immersive 3D
virtual environment developed by faculty and students in the 3DVIS
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CONTINUING EDUCATION
Complete an MS Entirely On-Line: With the addition of Rick Shoemaker's Mathematical Optics Lab to our long list of Distance Learning classes, it is now possible for students to complete an MS entirely on-line with only one trip to campus for the thesis defense. (UA requires the defense to take place on campus.)
Good News for International Certificate Students: Just in -- Non-U.S. students completing the Certificate program entirely on-line are not required to submit TOEFL scores.
Fall 2009 On-Line Classes Begin on August 24: Application and admission information is available on our Web site at www.optics.arizona.edu/academics/admissions.htm Our list of courses has grown -- for fall 2009, we are offering 16 courses:
Colloquium: Our last Colloquium of the academic year was on April 30 when Dr. Anthony Siegman presented Optics with Gain. Colloquium will resume next fall, shortly after classes begin. Affiliates, you are all invited to attend our Colloquium, but if that's not possible, we have started taping them and making them available through our Web site at http://www.optics.arizona.edu/Colloquium/default.htm
OSC STORE
Caps and Shirts: We have been very pleased with how well our new OSC caps and shirts are being received -- they are almost flying off the shelves. They make great gifts and are available to you any time. Please visit our on-line shopping site at www.optics.arizona.edu/store/default.htm
Much of the information included in this e-mail can also be found in our weekly e-newsletter, Watt’s Up. If you would like to subscribe, you may add (and later remove if you wish) your name to our Watt's Up listserv by visiting http://www.optics.arizona.edu/helpdesk/listserv.htm
Cathy Alexander Information Specialist Coordinator College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona |
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Vote in SPIE's Upcoming
Election: The SPIE 2009 election
for officers and board directors will be held from June 1 to July
22. SPIE members who are eligible to vote will receive an e-mail
message from SPIE with instructions on the electronic voting
process. At SPIE, members vote for
one vice-presidential candidate. The person elected will serve
four consecutive years in each of the four different capacities that
comprise the presidential chain: vice-president,
president-elect, president, and immediate past-president. This year, SPIE has two
excellent candidates for vice-president: Christopher Progler,
with Photonics, Inc., and our own Eustace Dereniak.
Affiliates, many of you have met Dr. Dereniak at our Workshops and
will have the opportunty to get together with him at future
workshops. Meanwhile, if you'd like to see a brief resume and
a partial list of Eustace's many qualifications for the SPIE position, please visit his Web site at