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.