SPIE Students

11/08/2022

📦 Exciting news: WE’RE MOVING! 📦

Keep calm and read on for an important announcement. ⤵️

The SPIE Membership team has been working diligently to create a place for SPIE Student Members and Chapters to get all the information they need, as well as connect with the greater optics and photonics community. This exciting new space is ready to be shared!

⭐ PRESENTING… the new SPIE Student Slack Workspace! ⭐
This is a unique communication and connection platform for all SPIE Student Members! If you are currently a Student Member, please join us on Slack. Student Members should have received an email with information on how to join, but if you did not, contact [email protected].

The SPIE Students page will remain online for the time being but will be inactive. If you are a student chapter who would like to tag SPIE in your photos or posts, please tag our main page here: SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics

See you on Slack! 👋

10/27/2022

Nice work, YSO Student Chapter 🥳🤩

STEM outreach became one of the core activities of the YSO Student Chapter!
On the 20th of October, the members of the YSO Student Chapter and ԵՊՀ Ֆիզիկայի Ֆակուլտետի ՈՒԳԸ, accompanying Prof. Rafik Hakobyan - the chapter's advisor and the dean of the ԵՊՀ Ֆիզիկայի ֆակուլտետ/YSU, Faculty of Physics, visited 3 schools in Gyumri, Shirak region of Armenia and had meetings with middle and high school students, their teachers discussing the important role of science end technologies in our lives and for a better, safer country. Moreover, Prof. Hakobyan talked about new programs thought at the Faculty of Physics, encouraging students to join the faculty.
💡🧲🔬🌈In the end, the chapter's members demonstrated experiments with polarizers and fibres, diffraction gratings and lasers, Tesla's coil and Sterling's motor.
It is always motivating to receive questions and see curiosity in the eyes of school students who come to listen and follow us.

The whole YSO Student Chapter thanks its active members Լևոն Դավթյան and Edvard Grigoryan for their endless efforts in promoting science and, especially, optics to school teachers, students and public audiences. Our STEM community becomes stronger thanks to such volunteers!

Stay tuned to see our next stop in the scientific journey!

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10/07/2022

Congrats to Joshua Pace, PhD candidate in Bioengineering at Northeastern University! Pace and his team under the direction of SPIE Senior Member Mark Niedre designed, built, and tested an optical fiber probe to detect fluorescently labeled circulating tumor cells noninvasively, by using near-infrared diffuse in vivo flow cytometry (DiFC). See the report in :
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-biomedical-optics/volume-27/issue-09/097002/Near-infrared-diffuse-in-vivo-flow-cytometry/10.1117/1.JBO.27.9.097002.full?utm_id=zfbz

10/03/2022

Congratulations to Student Chapter Member Cyril Soliman & team at Texas A&M University for developing a portable, multimodal Raman and fluorescence platform able to detect biomarkers on-site, for point-of-care in low-resource settings.

See their report in : https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-biomedical-optics/volume-27/issue-09/095006/Portable-multi-modal-Raman-and-fluorescence-spectroscopic-platform-for-point/10.1117/1.JBO.27.9.095006.full?utm_id=zfbz

SignificancePoint-of-care (POC) platforms utilizing optical biosensing strategies can achieve on-site detection of biomarkers to improve the quality of care for patients in low-resource settings.AimWe aimed to develop a portable, multi-modal spectroscop...

09/28/2022

📣 Upcoming event alert from our colleagues at Northwestern SPIE 🎉

08/31/2022

Excellent first first-author article by Student Member Michaela Taylor-Williams at University of Cambridge: “Noninvasive hemoglobin sensing and imaging: optical tools for disease diagnosis” in the current issue of .

Based on the absorption of light by hemoglobin, optical tools make it possible to detect blood oxygenation and flow. The is a well-known example.

Beyond pulse oximetry, many newer optical technologies are emerging to detect hemoglobin-based biomarkers and facilitate real-time care for a wide range of debilitating illnesses.

Learn more: https://spie.org/news/optical-tools-for-measuring-blood-oxygenation?utm_id=zfbz

Hemoglobin imaging and sensing help identify significant biomarkers via a growing range of optical techniques

08/17/2022

📣Reminder📣
This sweet new SPIE webinar series that is just for students launches tomorrow!
Join us at 8 am Pacific Time on 18 August 2022 to hear what three SPIE Student Chapters have been doing for their Outreach Projects, and what SPIE is doing to support our students in their ventures.
Register for free: https://bit.ly/3K9jn5y
Watch recordings: https://bit.ly/3PrCHvD

08/16/2022

If you have not heard by now, US semiconductor manufacturing just got a huge boost. Check out this article on the historic CHIPS and Science Act. This is going to mean a lot of potential jobs in this industry! 💸💸

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The new law advances efforts to boost US semiconductor manufacturing, and is a boon for the US optics and photonics community

08/10/2022

Have you heard the news? 🆕 📰 We’re launching a new opportunity for you to gain the skills, information, and resources you need to successfully join the optics and photonics workforce: the Career Connections Student Webinar Series! 👏

Join us on Thursday, 18 August, as we kick off the series with this discussion about how to effectively elevate interest in optics and photonics through strategic outreach. Hear from three SPIE Student Chapters from Charles University, Vanderbilt University, and Central Carolina Community College, and Membership Director Nelufar Mohajeri — and add your voice to the conversation. 🗨️

https://spie-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/4016579201710/WN_y_emdZdRSkydNqkhK_plQg

07/16/2022

Are you transitioning from academia to industry, or do you want to learn more about the current realities, rewards, and challenges of a career in and ? 🤔

Join us for this free webinar to have your questions answered – and perhaps add some newfound clarity to the professional pathway that stands before you. 💡

👉 https://bit.ly/3yFvJwG

07/16/2022

Hats off to Mexico’s Osa-Spie-Inaoe for earning the first-ever SPIE Presidential Award for Outstanding Student Chapter! 🎩 🙌

We’d also like to recognize University of Rochester SPIE Student Chapter and Poland’s SPIE Wrocław University of Science and Technology as the runners-up. 👏

We thank and congratulate these student chapters for their dedication to bringing optics to all people and cultivating future leaders of light-based technology. 💡

Learn more 👉 https://bit.ly/3PnJgjb

07/08/2022

Huge congratulations to the SPIE Student Chapter at Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE) for being our first-ever winner of the SPIE Presidential Award for Outstanding Student Chapter! 💐🎉🎈🙌

We are so proud of all the hard work INAOE has done over the last year to be a champion for optics and photonics in their community and beyond. We look forward to celebrating their accomplishments in San Diego at !

A special shout out to the two runners-up, the University of Rochester SPIE Student Chapter and SPIE Wrocław University of Science and Technology Student Chapter. Well done, everyone!

Read more about the award and the winners here: https://bit.ly/3yrT8la

The newly established award recognizes SPIE Student Chapters with exceptional levels of participation, program quality, professionalism, and community involvement