{"id":2929,"date":"2025-09-08T15:59:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/?p=2929"},"modified":"2025-11-14T21:30:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:30:58","slug":"eight-creol-professors-achievements-recognized-at-founders-day-honors-convocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/2025\/09\/08\/eight-creol-professors-achievements-recognized-at-founders-day-honors-convocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight CREOL Professors&#8217; achievements recognized at Founders\u2019 Day Honors Convocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight CREOL Professors&#8217; achievements were recognized at the UCF Founders\u2019 Day Honors Convocation<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2868 img-fluid\" src=\"http:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2025\/09\/4-3-14-Dogariu.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aristide Dogariu<br \/>\nPegasus Professor Award<br \/>\nResearch Incentive Award (UCF &#8220;At Large&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2865 img-fluid\" src=\"http:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2025\/09\/4-3-14-Abouraddy.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ayman Abouraddy<br \/>\nReach for the Stars Award<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2869 img-fluid\" src=\"http:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2025\/09\/4-3-14-Kik.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pieter Kik<br \/>\nExcellence in Graduate Teaching (College Award)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2867 img-fluid\" src=\"http:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2025\/09\/4-3-14-Christodoulides.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Demetrios Christodoulides<br \/>\nExcellence in Research (College Award)<br \/>\nExcellence in Research (University Award)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2871 img-fluid\" src=\"http:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2025\/09\/4-3-14-Thomas.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jayan Thomas (joint appointment with CREOL)<br \/>\nExcellence in Research (Centers Award)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2872 img-fluid\" src=\"http:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2025\/09\/4-3-14-Zeldovich.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Boris Zeldovich<br \/>\n20-Years Service<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2866 img-fluid\" src=\"http:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2025\/09\/4-3-14-Boreman.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Glenn Boreman<br \/>\nEmeritus Faculty<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2870 img-fluid\" src=\"http:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2025\/09\/4-3-14-Richardson.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Martin Richardson<br \/>\nResearch Incentive Award (College of Optics &amp; Photonics)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Posted Thursday, April 3, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eight CREOL Professors&#8217; achievements were recognized at the UCF Founders\u2019 Day Honors Convocation Aristide Dogariu Pegasus Professor Award Research Incentive Award (UCF &#8220;At Large&#8221;) Ayman Abouraddy Reach for the Stars Award Pieter Kik Excellence in Graduate Teaching (College Award) Demetrios Christodoulides Excellence in Research (College Award) Excellence in Research (University Award) Jayan Thomas (joint appointment&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2930,"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions\/2930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}