Congratulations to the best student poster award winners at the 2008 Joint Annual Conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and National Society of Hispanic Physicists (NSBP/NSHP). Each year SPIE sponsors awards for promising students presenting their research at conferences.
First Place Award Winner ($400):
Dawit Jowhar, Fisk University - "Effect of Background Gas Pressure on the Optical and Electrical Properties of Pulsed Electron-Beam Deposited CdTe"
Second Place Award Winner ($200):
Rasheen Connell, Howard University - "A Numerical Model Characterizing the Experimental Performance of the Howard University Raman Lidar System”