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Mike McKee is the recipient of the 2019  Gabor Award. This award, which is sponsored by The GABOR Agency, was established to recognize and reward the outstanding job performance of a selected Administrative & Professional (A&P) employee.  Mike was honored yesterday at the Annual Employee Awards Program.

On Nov. 10-11, you can join our world-leading faculty and their students and alumni to learn about opportunities in this field by attending our annual undergraduate student conference.

The most outstanding student project North American Summer School on Photonic Materials, directed by Kathleen Richardson and Younes Messeddeq at COPL in the University of Laval. Six UCF-affiliated student participated amongst a total of some 80 student from around the world.

Jennifer Hewitt, from Dr. Ronald Driggers‘ research group, is featured in the I4 Business magazine: “4 Scientists from imec Share their Journeys.”

Ph.D. Graduates Hao Chen Optics Yajie Dong Guanjun Tan Optics Shin-Tson Wu Juan “Rachel” He Optics Shin-Tson Wu Midya Parto Optics Demetrios Christodoulides​ Fedor Kompan Optics Leonid B. Glebov Jian Zhao Optics Axel Schülzgen Marcin Malinowski Optics Ayman Abouraddy Javed Rouf Talukder Optics Shin-Tson Wu Qitian Ru Optics Konstantin L. Vodopyanov​ Felix Tan Optics Sasan…

From UCF Today: UCF Grad Selected to Help Introduce Scientific Perspectives to Congress Laser scientist Christina C. C. Willis ’09MS ’13PhDhas been selected for a one-year congressional fellowship in Washington to help craft recommendations and scientific policies. Read more…

Schematic of the sensor with frustrated photodetectors indicated as a diode with two operating states. Bias and select functionality combined into a single interconnect eliminating the need for a readout transistor. Pixel circuit is shown as the inset. A paper titled “Organic photodetectors with frustrated charge transport for small-pitch image sensors” by Professor Kyle Renshaw…

Professors from CREOL have been awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) award. The grant will support the development of multicolor two-photon excitation STED imaging system with multichannel compact semiconductor laser. Assistant Professor Kyu Young Han is the principal investigator of this grant, and is accompanied with two co-principal investigators: Professors Peter Delfyett and Eric…

Professor Luca Argenti was selected for the U.S. Department of Energy Early Career award. He is the only recipient from Florida this year. See UCF Today: Another National Honor for One of UCF’s Physics Faculty Department of Energy Selects 73 Scientists to Receive Early Career Research Program Funding WASHINGTON, DC – The Department of Energy’s…

CREOL graduate student Jennifer Hewitt appears in this Fox News video about the development of a light source and infrared camera specially designed to flush-out invasive pythons.

The SPIE D.J. Lovell Scholarship was awarded to Derek Burrell, CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida (United States). This is the Society’s largest and most prestigious scholarship and is sponsored by SPIE. Burrell is pursuing an MS in Optics and Photonics from CREOL at the University of Central Florida, where…

PhD student Jennifer Hewitt, in Dr. Ron Driggers’s research group has received a DOD SMART Scholarship.  The Science, Mathematics And Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship for Service Program has been established by the Department of Defense (DoD) to support undergraduate and graduate students pursuing technical degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The program aims…