News

Congratulations to Luke DeMars, a Ph.D. student in optical science and engineering here at UNC Charlotte, who has recently been awarded the Synopsys 2022 Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Optical Design Award for his project titled, “Optical modeling of generalized mid-spatial-frequency surface errors.” As the Synopsys blog writes, DeMars “used CODE V to model and predict […]

Congratulations to Dr. Raja for being promoted as a SPIE fellow. Brent Johnson (SPIE Member Recognition Coordinator) sent a congratulatory email message on behalf of the SPIE Board of Directors and Fellows Committee on Dec. 22nd, 2021 that Dr. M. Yasin Akhtar Raja has been elected to the grade of Fellow of SPIE among 58 […]

Scott Williams has been recognized by the Laser and Photonics labs of Central Carolina Community College (CCCC) for being a founding CCCC laser program advisor, thus providing valuable advice and direction during the first meeting which set the stage for changing the focus of study for the laser program from fiber optics laser applications to […]

Dear alumni, faculty, and students, You are invited to the 1st “Optics Alumni Meetup” on Friday, December 10th, from 3:00 to 4:30 PM EST on Zoom. This meeting is planned to re-establish the network between faculty, students, and alumni. We will hear from the optics department’s chair, faculty, and alumni; and get to see where […]

Congratulations to our graduate students for these wonderful achievements! 1) Sara Moein was selected as a winner of the 2021 Synopsys Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Optical Design Competition! More information can be found at the following links: https://www.synopsys.com/optical-solutions/learn/competition.htmlhttps://blogs.synopsys.com/optical-solutions/2021/08/25/2021-robert-s-hilbert-memorial-optical-design-competition-results/ 2) Shohreh Shadalou was named the Student Winner for the Illumination section of the International Optical Design […]

The Center for Metamaterials just received its award letter for a third five-year phase from National Science Foundation. This is an Industry/University Collaborative Research Center (I/UCRC), which is supported by annual fees from companies, who vote on projects proposed by the faculty. Their financial support typically goes toward student stipends and tuition and is a […]

We would like to congratulate Dr. Rosario Porras-Aguilar for receiving the NSF Career Project award for “Smart Imaging and Metrology Enabled by Liquid Crystals”. The grant is $500,000 through 2026. She was recently recognized as Cottrell Scholar in physics for her research in “Label-Free Reconfigurable Microscopy with High Specificity.” Porras-Aguilar also is co-principal investigator for […]

We would like to congratulate our multiple departmental faculty Dr. Ishwar Aggarwal, Dr. Vasily Astratov, Dr. Glenn Boreman, Dr. Nate Fried, Dr. Greg Gbur, Dr. Tsing-Hua Her, and Dr. Robert Tyson (emeritus) for being named in Stanford University’s latest list representing the top 2% of the world’s most-cited researchers.

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has featured the news of Dr. Gbur and Dr. Suleski being named 2021 Fellows by the Optical Society Board of Directors. Gregory Gbur was honored for contributions to coherence theory, singular optics, and the intersection of these disciplines. Thomas Suleski was awarded for technical achievements in diffractive optics, micro-optics, […]

We would like to congratulate Dr. Thomas Suleski for being elected as a Fellow Member of The Optical Society (OSA) at the Society’s recent Board of Directors Meeting. Fellow membership in OSA is limited to no more than ten percent of the membership and is reserved for members who have served with distinction in the […]