Prof. Majeed Hayat named SPIE Fellow

Professor Majeed Hayat was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) on Dec. 15, 2012. This honor was given to Dr. Hayat for his "pioneering work in modeling and understanding impact ionization and noise in avalanche-photodiode devices well as seminal contributions to image processing for reducing noise in infrared focal-plane arrays.” Dr. Hayat received his recognition and plaque at the Photonics West Fellows Luncheon (Monday 23 January 2012 in San Francisco, CA).
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Prof. Luke Lester named the SPIE 2012 Harold E. Edgerton award winner!

Congrats to the department Chair Prof. Luke Lester on winning the 2012 Harold E. Edgerton award. This Award is presented annually by SPIE for outstanding contributions to optical or photonic techniques in the application and understanding of high speed physical phenomena.
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Secretary Steven Chu announces UNM team selection in solar decathlon

The team lead by Prof. Olga Lavrova from the ECE department has been selected as one of the participants in the 2013 DOE solar Decathlon. The announcement was made by Energy Secretary Steven Chu at a student town hall meeting held at UNM. The team from UNM and the Arizona State University is one of twenty teams to be selected for this prestigious event. see the blog at DOE for additional information. http://www.solardecathlon.gov/blog/archives/tag/solar-decathlon-2013
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Prof. Yasamin Mostofi featured on new KNME show "Connect"

Prof. Yasamin Mostofi, the recent PECASE recipient, was featured on KNME's new show "Connect". More on this story on the SOE website. This is the premier of the show which is about UNM faculty. http://www.soe.unm.edu/latest/jan-june12/unm-soe-faculty-profiled-on-knme-this-week.html
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Paper coauthored by Applied EM Ph.D. student and faculty awarded 2011 CST University Publication Award

CST University Publication Award is an annual grant to university institutes and researchers for their work in the application of 3D EM field simulation. This year the award was made to Prashanth Kumar, a graduate student at ECE advised by Prof. Christodoulou and the late Prof. Baum. The basis of the award was a publication by Mr. Kumar which was selected by CST as an outstanding publication. Details of the paper and the CST University Publication Award can be found at http://www.cst.com/Content/Company/UniAward2011.aspx
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Prof. Mostofi's PECASE achievement recognized by President Schmidley and UNM

President Schmidly, the President of UNM, recognized Professor Yasamin Mostofi of ECE for her research accomplishments in the Board of Regents meeting on Dec. 13, 2011.
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