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#FacesofPhotonics: Aerospace Engineer Elaine Stewart

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Meet the 2020 SPIE Award Recipients

SPIE offers Child Care Grants

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Can You Improve Your Technical Writing? (Spoiler: YES!)

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SESAMs, Ultrafast Lasers, Mentorship, and Diversity: A Q&A with 2020 SPIE Gold Medal WinnerUrsula Keller

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In Memoriam: Jerrold Zimmerman

Equality in Science

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New SPIE Fellows Honored

SPIE and the University of Central Florida Announce $650,000 Scholarship Fund

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A Practical Guide to Conferences, Part I: Preparing for a Presentation

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A Practical Guide to Conferences, Part II: Poster Presentations

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A Practical Guide to Conferences, Part III: Pre-conference Planning

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A Practical Guide to Conferences, Part IV: At the Conference

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SPIE Announces Its 2020 DCS Rising Researchers

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SPIE Members Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame

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SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics, Announces Its 2020 Fellows

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SPIE Launches Photonics Focus

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#FacesofPhotonics: Senior Test Engineer Junwei Meng

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#FacesofPhotonics: Senior Photonics Specialist Cheryl Asbury

Is There a Badge for Refractive Optics?

Steven Jacques: The 2020 SPIE Britton Chance Biomedical Optics Award

Vivian Ferry: The 2020 SPIE Early Career Achievement Award – Academic Focus

Pietro Ferraro: The 2020 SPIE Dennis Gabor Award in Diffractive Optics

Pablo Benítez: The 2020 SPIE A.E. Conrady Award in Optical Engineering

Kathleen A. Richardson: The 2020 SPIE Maria J. Yzuel Educator Award

John R. Rogers: The 2020 SPIE Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake Award in Optical Design

James E. Millerd: The 2020 SPIE Chandra S. Vikram Award in Optical Metrology

Harold L. Kundel: The 2020 SPIE Harrison H. Barrett Award in Medical Imaging

Gordon Wetzstein: The 2020 SPIE Early Career Achievement Award – Academic Focus

Alan R. Fry: The 2020 SPIE Harold E. Edgerton Award in High-Speed Optics

Winfried Kaiser: The 2020 SPIE Frits Zernike Award for Microlithography

Oswald Siegmund: The 2020 SPIE George W. Goddard Award in Space and Airborne Optics

Tatiana Novikova: The 2020 SPIE G.G. Stokes Award in Optical Polarization

Jessica Wade: The 2020 SPIE Diversity Outreach Award

John H. Lehman: The 2020 SPIE Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award in Photonics

Nirmala Ramanujam: The 2020 SPIE Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award

Nishant Mohan: The 2020 SPIE Early Career Achievement Award – Government/Industry Focus

Sanjay Krishna: The 2020 SPIE Aden and Marjorie Meinel Technology Achievement Award

Sona Hosseini: The 2020 SPIE Early Career Achievement Award – Government/Industry Focus

Ursula Keller: The 2020 SPIE Gold Medal

Daniel Vukobratovich: The 2020 SPIE President’s Award

Gary Spiegel: The 2020 SPIE Directors’ Award

Yuri Kivshar: The 2020 SPIE Mozi Award

In Memoriam: Roland V. Shack

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#FacesofPhotonics: Stargazer Stacey Sueoka

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#FacesofPhotonics: Lithographer Luciana Meli

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#FacesofPhotonics: Senior Program Manager at Ball Aerospace, Allison Barto

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2019 Nobel Prize in Physics Recognizes Astronomical Leaps

#FacesofPhotonics: Entrepreneur and Changemaker Aitor Villafranca Velasco

Day in the Life of an SPIE Professional: Nishant Mohan

Progress Includes Partnerships

#FacesofPhotonics: Biomedical Optics PhD Student, Arvid Lindberg

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#FacesofPhotonics: President of Savvy Optics, Dave Aikens

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#FacesofPhotonics: Optimax Director of Technology and Strategy, Jessica DeGroote Nelson

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#FacesofPhotonics: Optics Expert and SPIE Member, Dr. Alexis Vogt

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How Digital Technology Helps Solve Mysteries in the Humanities

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Biomedical Salaries in Optics and Photonics: Engineering Greater Health

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In Memoriam: Ravindra Lal

Writing STEM Women into the Public Arena

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“Different Voices = New Ideas”

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Most impressive! Optics Outreach Games Showcase Student Chapter Projects

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How to Construct a Compelling Grant Proposal

SPIE-Hillenkamp Fellowships Drive Translational Photonics Technologies

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Visa Challenges Continue for Many Non-US Scientists

Essential Skills for a Career in the Private Sector

SPIE in the Community

Day in the Life of an SPIE Professional: Amy Oldenburg

Letter from the President

2019 SPIE Election Opens July 1

Securing Success: Defense Salaries in Optics and Photonics

Queen's Birthday Honours List Recognizes People in Optics and Photonics

In Memoriam: Vladimir Ukraintsev

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Angela Saini: Addressing Race Science

High Stakes Year for Research and Development Funding

AI and the United States

In Memoriam: Charles "Chuck" DeMund

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SPIE Ocean Sensing and Monitoring Best Paper Award

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Beyond 2020 Vision

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Equity, Diversity & Inclusion: What can we do to change things?

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Of Plaques and Patents

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Faces of Photonics: CEO of Datalytica Dr. Misty Blowers

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Master of Her Matrix

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A Day in the Life of an SPIE Professional: Christopher Wilcox

Two Decades of Good Will

The Up and Coming Stars of Tomorrow

Early Career Achievement Awards Honor Excellence

Fellowship Winners Tackle Twin Healthcare Challenges

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Honoring Steven L. Jacques, a Pioneer in Biomedical Optics

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Photonics21 digs in for next phase of continental R&D

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At the Nexus of Contemporary Science

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Meeting the Photoresist Challenge

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For Manufacturability, Optimize Everything

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BiOS Hot Topics: changing of the guard

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Government Shutdown Harms Science

Faces of Photonics: Professor of Medical Physics and Photonics West Hot Topics Speaker, Clare Elwell

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Working Together to Improve Global Health

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A Day in the Life of an SPIE Professional: Leslie Kimerling

Removing Barriers

Bridging the Valley of Death in Biotech

Two Pioneers Recognized for Contributions to Lithography

U.S. Government Seeks Information on How to Control Emerging Technology

Arseniy Kuznetsov: Building flat optics and lasers with nanoantennas

SPIE offers Child Care Grants

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Translational Tech: NASA’S artistic endeavor

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New U.S. Law Addresses Control of Emerging Technologies

La Terrasse Optique

Plastic Fantastic: Next-gen electronics

FLIR Women Are on a Mission

Earth Angel: Chris Fisher's latest expedition

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Making Her SMART Marks

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"Be prepared," Indeed!

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First annual International Day of Light

First SPIE Gender Equity Report: Overview and Key Findings

Privacy Policy changes coming from SPIE: Opt-IN!

SPIE Gold Medal winner Paul Corkum: Voted “most likely to win a Nobel Prize”

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Meet your new SPIE CEO

Optics and Biophotonics in Low-Resource Settings

Alexis Vogt: Raising the Bar on Diversity in Optics

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Optics and photonics jobs: what it needs, what it takes

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Where optics meets the world

The 2018 SPIE Women in Optics planner

Meet your new SPIE President: Maryellen Giger from the University of Chicago

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SPIE: First for industry

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SPIE marks National STEM Day

Katarina Svanberg: Combining optics and oncology

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Adrian Tang: Using CMOS technology for next-generation extreme weather forecasting

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SPIE Election 2017

2017 SPIE Gold Medal

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SPIE President’s Award

SPIE Directors’ Award

Chandra S. Vikram Award

SPIE Early Career Achievement Awards

Rudolf Kingslake Medal Awarded

SPIE President’s Corner

Congressional Fellow

SPIE at ETOP 2017

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SPIE President’s Corner

SPIE 2017 Election

SPIE Dennis Gabor Award

SPIE G.G. Stokes Award

SPIE Educator Award

New SPIE Scholarship

2017 SPIE Salary Survey

UNESCO Endorses International Day of Light

Brexit and Scientific Collaboration

New President for Photonics21

US Rules on Export of Optics and Photonics Tech

Mexico Launches Photonics Initiative

History of Frits Zernike Award

Harold E. Edgerton Award

Frits Zernike Award

Technology Achievement Award

Biomedical Optics Award

Society Awards for 2017

Journal Impact Factor

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Women in Optics Calendar

SPIE President’s Corner

In Memory: Joe Yaver

William D. Phillips: Quantum optics, laser cooling, and the joy of science outreach

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Women in Optics Calendar

Presentations from Light for a Better World: A Celebration of U.S. Innovation

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France Cordova presentation from Light for a Better World: A Celebration of U.S. Innovation

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Eric Betzig: Development of Super-Resolved Fluorescence Microscopy

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Gerald Duffy presentation from Light for a Better World: Solid-State Lighting -- Transforming Our World

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Shuji Nakamura presentation from Light for a Better World: A Celebration of U.S. Innovation

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Michael Liehr presentation from Light for a Better World: Moore's Law and how we can Extend it

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France A. Cordova IYL Presentation: NSF: Investing in Discovery-Based Research

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Videos: Paris speakers pay tribute to light

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Women in Optics

Career Advice from Women in Optics

SPIE Women in Optics Calendar

Meet the 2013 SPIE President

SPIE Women in Optics Calendar

Top Women Scientists Offer Career Advice

Optics & Photonics Global Salary Report 2019

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