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• Irving Bigio: The 2026 SPIE Britton Chance Biomedical Optics Award

  For pioneering elastic scattering spectroscopy and translating it into a clinically impactful... [ More ]

• Siddharth Ramachandran: The 2026 SPIE G.G. Stokes Award in Optical Polarization

  For seminal contributions in the area of spatially and vectorially structured light... [ More ]

• Asking the BIG Questions in Kirit Karkare’s Cosmology Lab

  Kakare's group works with laboratories across the country on macro telescopes in... [ More ]

• Xin Zhang, Irving Bigio, and More Featured in “Best of The Brink 2025” Inventions List

  From soft robots that could make cancer surgery safer to an algorithm... [ More ]

• Building Mini-Brains, Advancing Big Ideas: How Kate Herrema Uses Organoids to Model Neurodevelopment

  Whether in her home state of Michigan, during her high school years... [ More ]