News items track honors, achievements, activities, and milestones of SPIE members and leading constituents. Articles are listed chronologically and archived by year. Items posted beginning in January 2009 may be filtered by category.
02 February 2012
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H. John Caulfield, retired Chief Scientist at Alabama A&M University Research Institute and a past editor of the SPIE journal Optical Engineering, passed away after an illness on 31 January 2012.
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18 January 2012
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Friends and collegues of SPIE Fellow James Wyant gathered in Tucson for a celebration honoring the retiring college dean and major supporter of Arizona Wildcats basketball.
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10 January 2012
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SPIE Corporate Member Edmund Optics recently announced its awards for 2011 recognizing outstanding undergraduate and graduate optics programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) at non-profit college and universities.
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06 January 2012
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SPIE members, authors and friends were among Nature Magazine's list of "scientists who mattered" in 2011. Their photonics-based contributions are part of what the magazine calls "the fascinating fabric of scientific research."
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06 January 2012
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SPIE Member William Whelan is working towards a new diagnostic technology for prostate cancer by implanting optical fibers.
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06 January 2012
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Work by SPIE Member Roger Zemp (Univ. of Alberta) aimed at noninvasive examination of brain and other tissue by using light and sound is helping advance the emerging field of photoacoustics, according to a recent article in The Scientist.
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