Earlier this week, a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the countries of Syria and Turkey with devastating impact on their people. As a college of many international peoples, the Wyant College of Optical Sciences encourages support for the international recovery efforts underway. Please consider donations to any organization, with examples that you might consider including

Announced by the college last week, Bahram Jalali, PhD; a pioneer of silicon photonics and a prolific inventor of record-setting imaging and sensing technologies and algorithms, has established an endowed chair in his name at the University of Arizona James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences. Bahram wishes for his endowed chair to support faculty whose innovations and discoveries will further the global impact of optical technologies.