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📦 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! 👋

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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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

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

Portable, multi-modal Raman and fluorescence spectroscopic platform for point-of-care applications 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...

📣 Upcoming event alert from our colleagues at Northwestern SPIE 🎉

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

Optical tools for measuring blood oxygenation Hemoglobin imaging and sensing help identify significant biomarkers via a growing range of optical techniques

📣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

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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US President Joe Biden signs historic CHIPS and Science Act The new law advances efforts to boost US semiconductor manufacturing, and is a boon for the US optics and photonics community

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

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

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

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

INAOE team announced as inaugural winners of SPIE Presidential Award for Outstanding Student Chapter The newly established award recognizes SPIE Student Chapters with exceptional levels of participation, program quality, professionalism, and community involvement

"Embrace how your q***rness changes who you are as a scientist or engineer. As researchers, our desire for complete objectivity leads us to ignore social issues and consequently erase people with marginalized identities. Just remember that this division is not real: you bring your q***r identity to everything you do and it gives you a unique and valuable point of view that we need in research."
- Brandon Bakka, PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin

is proud to support the diverse voices in our community. Read Brandon's story, here: https://spie.org/news/stories-of-pride-brandon-bakka?utm_id=zfbz

may be over, but the fight for equality never sleeps.

"Community is so important for handling the ups and downs of undergrad, grad school, and beyond, so work just as hard at securing meaningful friendships as you do with your work."
- Andrew Stier, machine-learning specialist, podcaster, and champion of inclusive, representative recruitment and active employer support.

Read more, here: https://bit.ly/3bwYNi7

"I see so many people believing that events and projects which seek to support our LGBTQ+ community have some prerequisite for participation. I don't think that should be true. Events like that exist to celebrate diversity and inclusion and assuming there is some restriction on who is invited based on identity is exactly the opposite of that celebration."
-Maxwell McManus

Celebrating with these incredible and inspiring scientists in our community. Check out Maxwell's story, here: https://bit.ly/3b0VOhw

Final call!

The SPIE International Day of Light Student Video Contest deadline is this coming Thursday, 30 June. There is still time to submit your 60-second video for a chance at cash prizes, including a $1,000 grand prize! 🎉🎈

Contest rules and submission form, here: https://bit.ly/3lefErC

What is exciting about the future of optics and photonics? Why should future generations care about these fields of study? How can we inspire others to work in these areas?

Answer questions like these in a 60-second video for a chance at $1,000, as well as other cash prizes.

⚡ 🤳 🎥 What story will you tell?

Deadline in 6 days! Contest rules and submissions: https://bit.ly/3lefErC

⚡ 🤳 🎥 What story will you tell?

Deadline in 9 days. Contest rules and submissions: https://bit.ly/3lefErC

"Support your LGBTI+ scientists. Bring in varied speakers to talk about their science, not just to talk about being LGBTI+. The same is true for BIPOC and disabled scientists."
-Clara Barker

Celebrating with these incredible and inspiring scientists in our community. Check out Clara's story, here: https://bit.ly/3HtgPgZ

A 60-second video might earn you $1,000!

Share your perspective on the impact a career in optics and photonics has on the world through the 2022 International Day of Light Student Video Competition. Submissions are due on 30 June... just under two weeks away!

⚡ 🤳 🎥 What story will you tell?



https://bit.ly/3lefErC

"It can be daunting and sometimes might feel like a solitary journey, but I promise you that you are not alone; more importantly, there are many people working to make it easier for you to pursue a career in STEM."
-Alfredo Carpineti

Celebrating with these incredible and inspiring scientists in our community. Check out Alfredo's story, here: https://bit.ly/3MZ8h2x

Stories of Pride: Alfredo Carpineti Meet Alfredo Carpineti who successfully blends his social activism with a science career in astrophysics and communications

There is still time to win $1,000 for your short video submissions!

The 2022 International Day of Light Student Video Competition closes on 30 June. Take a chance and get behind your camera to create a video showcasing the exciting, impactful, and transformational fields of optics and photonics. Lights, camera, action! ⚡ 🤳 🎥 What story will you tell?



https://bit.ly/3lefErC

Thank you, SPIE CSIO Chandigarh Student Chapter, for bringing this resource to light! ☀️ If you are interested in a career in optics and photonics, check it out. It is free-99!

Fundamentals of Photonics :: Publications | SPIE.org Fundamentals of Photonics is designed for first- and second-year college students, but it is also suitable for both traditional and non-traditional students interested in learning the basics.

Join my colleague and SPIE Social Media Manager Emily Haworth and I for this free webinar this Thursday! 😎 See you there!

Navigating social media for professional use can feel daunting... but the pay-off is worth it! 📲

Join us for this free, educational Q&A with 's social media manager on 26 May at 9:00 AM Pacific Time. Get tips and tricks for using LinkedIn, Twitter, and more to advance your research and network with folks in your field.

We can't wait to see you there! 👋 https://spie-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/2416485951886/WN_SyLMtehBSNq0p1dQV2kkfg

The SPIE BACUS Scholarship application will close in just over a week! 📅 If you’re studying microlithography, have you applied yet?

https://bit.ly/39z0JG2

SPIE Student Members, our 2022 International Day of Light Student Video Competition is now open! 🏁 Get behind your camera to create a video showcasing the exciting, impactful, and transformational fields of optics and photonics for a chance to win $1,000. 🏆 Lights, camera, action! ⚡ 🤳 🎥 What story will you tell?



https://bit.ly/3lefErC

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YSO Student Chapterը սիրով հրավիում է բոլորին մասնակցելու Լույսի Միջազգային Օրվան նվիրված միջոցառումների առաջին մասին, որը տեղի կունենա մայիսի 5-ին, ժամը 15:00 ԵՊՀ Ֆիզիկայի ֆակուլտետի կոնֆերանսների դահլիճում։ Միջոցառման ընթացքում Բրյուսելի Ազատ Համալսարանից պրոֆեսոր Հեիդի Օտտևայեռեն, դոկտոր Տիգրան Բաղդասարյանը և դոկտոր Տաթևիկ Չալյանը կներկայացնեն Բրյուսելի ֆոտոնիկայի խմբի գիտական գործունեությունը և մագիստրոսական ծրագիրը։
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🥳Here we are to celebrate again International Day of Light 16 May 🤩 To kick off the first part of the celebration, on May 5th at 15:00, YSO Student Chapter invites you to join us in ԵՊՀ Ֆիզիկայի ֆակուլտետ/YSU, Faculty of Physics for the series of talks from our guests Prof. Heidi Ottevaere, Dr Tigran Baghdasaryan and Dr Tatev Chalyan from B-Phot Brussels Photonics, VUB - Vrije Universiteit Brussel who will give an overview on scientific activities of the group and introduce the Master of Science in Photonics Engineering UGent/VUB - Alumni & Students.
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So wonderful to see everyone in-person at ! If you are here, come say hi at the Membership Booth throughout the week for some free giveaways 😎🎉💫

Are you wanting to work in both optics and , or somewhere at the boundary? Nonlinear microscopy pioneer David Kleinfeld offers helpful insights and advice: https://bit.ly/3iQieCM

Navigating neurophotonics, words of wisdom: an interview with Professor David Kleinfeld David Kleinfeld, the Dr. George Feher Endowed Chair in Experimental Biophysics at UC San Diego, shares his views on training and best practices in neurophotonics, offering words of wisdom for building and strengthening our scientific community.