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Optics Unlocks Opportunities To Improve Eyesight of People With Cataracts
December 2, 2021
A passion for helping others and the technical expertise to make it happen recently earned a global prize for CREOL graduate Ceyhun Akcay, Ph.D., ’05.
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Classroom Legacy Greatest Source of Pride For CREOL Alumnus
November 17, 2021
Brian Monacelli, Ph.D., ’05, may have recently helped send a laser-based Raman and fluorescence spectrometer to Mars on the Perseverance rover, but the achievement he’s
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Plans For Defense Career Lead Ph.D. Candidate to CREOL
November 16, 2021
A childhood growing up in the shadow of the Pentagon led Jennifer Hewitt, a Ph.D. candidate at CREOL, the College of Optics and Photonics, to
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Paper Evaluates Emerging Technologies For Advancing AR/VR
November 5, 2021
Proposals from CREOL Professor Shin-Tson Wu, Ph.D., to slim down and evolve augmented and virtual reality displays are the subject of a new feature in
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Ph.D. Students Earn International, Local Recognition For LCD Research
November 2, 2021
The work of two graduate students in CREOL, the College of Optics and Photonics, recently earned them recognitions from industry leading organizations. The International
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CREOL Research Gains Recognition in Latest Issue of ‘Pegasus’
November 2, 2021
Innovative research underway in CREOL, the College of Optics and Photonics, received several spotlights in the latest issue of UCF’s main publication, Pegasus. A super-resolution
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UCF’s Expertise Gets Invite to Ivy League Network of Large Laser Energy Facilities
October 18, 2021
BY ZENAIDA GONZALEZ KOTALA UCF is joining LaserNetUS, a consortium of the nation’s best large laser facilities started by the Department of Energy as a
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UCF’s Brightest Shine During Luminary Awards
October 7, 2021
By ZENAIDA GONZALEZ KOTALA & ALLISON HURTADO Pegasus Professors Peter Delfyett, Ph.D.., and Kathleen Richardson, Ph.D., were among the 15 faculty recognized Wednesday night at
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3 UCF Graduate Students Awarded National Scholarships, More Than Any Other Institution in the Nation
October 4, 2021
BY ZENAIDA GONZALEZ KOTALA The Directed Energy Professional Society (DEPS) recently awarded three UCF graduate students scholarships worth up to $10,000 to continue their work
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CREOL Degree Provides Launchpad For Career at MIT Lincoln Labs
September 21, 2021
A chance encounter in the workplace is what led Rebecca Venegas, M.S ’20, to find her purpose as an electro-optics engineer. Venegas, a scientist who
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UCF Researchers Awarded $4.5 Million to Develop Non-GPS Location Finder
September 16, 2021
The Army Research Lab has awarded the University of Central Florida a $4.5 million grant to develop a smart, computer vision-based navigation system for when
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Endowed Scholarship Opens New Learning Opportunities for Underrepresented Students
September 13, 2021
Students pursuing a career in optics and photonics will benefit from the generosity of California-based photonics company Lumentum. The endowed scholarship begun by Lumentum is
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