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Xiaoxue Zhao wins the 2007-08 Leon Chua Award.
The Leon Chua award is presented to a graduate student or undergraduate
student or recent alumnus for outstanding research in the area of nonlinear
science. The award was made possible by a donation from a former student of Professor Chua, Professor S.M. Kang, when he was Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. In January 2001, Dr. Kang was named Dean of the Jack
Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Since March 2007, Prof. Kang is the Chancellor of the University of
California, Merced.
Please attend the Department's Student Awards Ceremony at 3:00 p.m. on
Friday, May 9th in the Hewlett-Packard Auditorium, room 306 Soda Hall, where
Wendy will receive recognition for the award. A reception will follow in
the Wozniak Lounge, room 430-438 Soda Hall.

M.C.Y. Huang Huang & Ye Mervin Zhou won the 65th Annual Device
Research Conference, 2007 http://drc.ee.psu.edu/studentaward.asp
One Best Student Paper Awards is selected at each DRC. Papers that are based on the independent research of the graduate student who is presenting the work are eligible for the Best Student Paper Award. The award is made based on the quality of the written abstract and the oral or poster presentation.
The awardee will be presented with a certificate and monetary award check at
the 66th Annual Device Research Conference, June 23-25, 2008.

Xiaoxue Zhao received B.U. Chen Memorial Scholarship given by the
Photonic Society of Chinese Americans, 2008.

Ye Zhou and M.C.Y. Huang won the Best Student Paper, Optical Society of America Frontiers in Optics Conference, 2007 Ye Zhou, M.C.Y. Huang and C.J. Chang-Hasnain, "Very Large Fabrication Tolerance of VCSELs Using High-Contrast Subwavelength Grating," Frontiers in Optics Conference, San Jose, CA, 17-20 September 2007.

Bala Pesala, Best Paper of Topical Meeting, OSA, 2007.
Bala Pesala, Forrest G. Sedgwick, Alexander V. Uskov, Connie Chang-Hasnain,
Tony H. Lin, "THz Tunable Slow Light and Fast Light of Ultrashort Pulses in
Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers", OSA Topical Meeting on Slow and Fast
light, Salt Lake City, Utah, 8-11 July 2007.