$262,000 was awarded in scholarships to 149 outstanding individuals, based on their potential for long-range contribution to optics and photonics, or a related discipline. Award-winning applicants were evaluated and selected and approved by the SPIE Scholarship Committee.
To date, SPIE has distributed over $2 million dollars in individual scholarships. This ambitious effort reflects the Society's commitment to education and to the next generation of optical scientists and engineers around the world.
2008 Top Scholarship Winners:
 | | The SPIE D.J. Lovell Scholarship is the Society's most prestigious scholarship. This scholarship is sponsored by SPIE with contributions from Labsphere, Inc.
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Nikolay Makarov
Montana State Univ., Bozeman
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 | | The 2nd Place SPIE Scholarship is the Society's second largest scholarship and is sponsored by SPIE.
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Manuel Guizar-Sicairos
Univ. of Rochester
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 | | The Laser Technology, Engineering and Applications Scholarship is awarded in recognition of the student's scholarly achievement in Laser Technology, Engineering, or Applications. Funds are provided in part by a gift from the former Forum for Military Applications of Directed Energy, and in part by SPIE. |
David Press
Stanford Univ.
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 | | The William H. Price Scholarship in Optical Engineering was established in 1985 to honor Bill Price, a well-respected member of SPIE's technical community. This scholarship is awarded to a full-time graduate or undergraduate student in the field of optical design and engineering. |
Ozan Cakmakci
Univ. of Central Florida
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Eric Chin
Univ. of California, Berkeley
| Peng Yu
Univ. of Texas at Arlington
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| Two BACUS Photomask Scholarships are awarded to a full-time undergraduate or graduate student in the field of microlithography with an emphasis on optical tooling and/or semiconductor manufacturing technologies. This scholarship is sponsored by BACUS, SPIE's Photomask International Technical Group. |
