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Michael Flatté and Paul Kleiber named Fellows of the American Physical Society

Michael Flatté and Paul Kleiber, professors in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department of Physics and Astronomy, have been awarded the distinction of 2007 Fellow of the American Physical Society, the foremost organization of its kind for the advancement of physics. (click here to read more)

UI's Bhattacharya, Flatté, Stinski elected 2007 AAAS Fellows

Three University of Iowa faculty members, two from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) and one from the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, have been awarded the distinction of 2007 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science. (click here to read more)

 

John Prineas awarded Dean's Scholar

The Dean's Scholars program honors newly tenured faculty who excell in both teaching and scholarship. IT is supported by funds fro mthe CLAS Dean's Chair endowed by the UI Alumni Association

John Prineas teaches large introductory physics classes and specialized courses in optics. His research is in the optical properties of semi-conductors. One aspect of his work, funded by NSF and the Department of Defense, focuses on nonlinear optical materials for lowing, trapping, and switching optical pulses. A second research effort, funded by NIH and the Department of Defense, is the development of high-quality semiconductor materials with applications ranging from blood glucose sening to night vision technology. Professor Prineas earned his doctorate at the University of Arizona and joined the physics and astronomy faculty in 2001 after completing a Humbolt Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Reserach.

 

 

 

2007 Optics Education Directory available in the OSTC office 114 IATL for your viewing

 

 

OSTC Newsletters VISIONS

• January 2002 -Spintronics...wave of the future, Raman Spectrometer
• August 2002 - From Molecules to Global Climate Change, One-Stop-Shop for Phtons
• January 2003 - Study of Light and Matter, Report on Grants held by OSTC members
• August 2003 - An NIH Grant for Development of Blood Glucose sensor, New Microfabrication Facility
• January 2004 - Nanostructured Polymers and Photopolymer Materials, X-Ray Photoelectron Spectrometer, Nanotech@UI Symposium
• August 2004 - John Prineas - Semiconductor Heterostrcutures, Markus Wohlgenannt - Organic LED's, Christopher Cheatum-2D Vibrational Spectroscopy
• January 2005 - Polymer Systems, Supra Molecular Chemistry
• August 2005 -Modeling and Characterizing the Heterogeneous Nature of the Troposphere, X-Ray Photoelectron Spectrometer, ASPECT Program
• January 2006 -Chemical Insights into Photopolymerization Process
• August 2006 - Economic Development
• Spring 2007 - Allan Guymon, Tuning Polymer Structure for Functional Ocular Stents; Len MacGillivray, Engineering Organic Semiconductors.
• Fall 2007 - Cover Articles; Arnold, Small and MacGillivray,

 

 

Recent Media Coverage of Optical Science & Technology Center

 

• Engineering Announces 2006 Storer Entrepreneurial Award Winner
  
  The University of Iowa College of Engineering has announced that a student-run business -- OMR Systems Inc. -- is the winner of the 2006 Hubert E. Storer Engineering Student Entrepreneurial Start-up Award.
  

• Michael E. Flatté, professor of physics and astronomy in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has won the 2006-2007 James Van Allen Natural Sciences Fellowship, a competitive award designed to encourage and support work in the physical, natural, and mathematical sciences. The $15,000 Van Allen award is one of two UI faculty fellowships awarded in alternate years, the other being the May Brodbeck Humanities Award.
  http://itsnt166.iowa.uiowa.edu/unsarchives/2006/june/062106flatte.html
  

• 3/9/06 - Michael Flatte receives $615,2008 Federal Grant to develop New Semiconductor Chip.

• Mark Arnold awarded Edwin B. Green Chair

 

National Science Foundation
NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Education Program: Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education
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National Journal - The EPA's Sniffer Plane (click here)