Shubham Chandel, a doctoral candidate studying biomedical optics at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, has been named the recipient of this year’s Teddi C. Laurin Scholarship. Chandel’s areas of study include light scattering and polarimetry in biophotonics research. He plans to use funding from the scholarship to conduct research in biomedical optics at Laboratoire de Physique des Interfaces et des Couches Minces (LPICM) in France, in conjunction with researchers Tatiana Novikova and Razvigor Ossokoviskiat. The work...Read full articleRelated content from Photonics MediaARTICLESInaugural Subsea Optical Fiber Communications Summer SchoolQ: How did Google and the OSA Foundation come to collaborate on this program? A: With data traffic via subsea optical fiber cable expected to double in three years, the OSA Foundation (OSAF) and...Photonics Spectra August 2019 IssueGraduate Student ProfilesA Serendipitous Start to a Career in Optics: Juniper Pollock Graduate students studying optics and photonics across the country have continued their work, despite the difficulties imposed by the...Photonics Spectra August 2020 IssueDeesha Shah Awarded 2020 Teddi C. Laurin ScholarshipShah is a doctoral student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, co-supervised by professors Vladimir Shalaev and Alexandra Boltasseva. Her research includes the...Photonics Spectra August 2020 IssueWhere Are They Now?In 2016 Kaitlyn Williams was awarded the first Teddi C. Laurin Scholarship. A graduate student at the University of Arizona at the time, Williams was pursuing a master’s degree in optical...Photonics Spectra August 2019 Issue