Ph.D. Fellowship Program

The success of interdisciplinary research at BUPC depends directly on the quality of our graduate students drawn from a wide range of academic backgrounds. For the 2010-2011 academic year, we changed the Photonics Fellowship Program. As a result, the Photonics Center Dean’s Fellowship process now aligns with the standard Dean’s Fellowship program supported by the Graduate Schools of Arts and Sciences (GRS) and Engineering. Below is a summary of the requirements for fellowship candidates:

Fellowship Candidates must be from Photonics Center Affiliated Departments:

• College of Arts and Sciences (CAS):
  - Physics
  - Chemistry
  - Astronomy/Space Physics
• College of Engineering (ENG):
  - Biomedical Engineering
  - Electrical and Computer Engineering
  - Mechanical Engineering
• School of Medicine (MED):
  - Microbiology
  - Psychiatry

Photonics Center Dean’s Fellowships require research alignment with Photonics Center faculty members. Graduate applications must identify:

• Interest in working with a Photonics Center faculty member or group
• Interest in specific graduate research topics in photonics

Responsibilities of Photonics Center Dean’s Fellowship recipients include:

• Completing at least one rotation or research program in a Photonics Center faculty laboratory
• Participating in Photonics Center community activities

The recipients for the 2010-2011 academic year are Jinwang Tan in Mechanical Engineering, Linxi Wu in Chemistry and Lingyue Cao in Physics. Jinwang Tan is joining BU from the University of Missouri at Columbia with a Masters in Biomedical Engineering. He will work with Professors Xin Zhang and Catherine Klapperich. Linxi Wu is joining BU from Peking University in Beijing, China with a BS in Chemistry. She will work with Professor Bjoern Reinhard’s group. Lingyue Cao is joining BU from Nanjing University with a BS in Physics. He will work with Professor Averitt’s group.