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
Jan. 26, 2011. 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. The awardees each
receive a generous $1,000 from John J. Ross, the founder of
Rolyn Optics Co.
Jan. 26, 2011. 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.
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