On April 27th, Dr. Arti Agrawal gave a scientific lecture on “Modelling Nanophotonic and Plasmonic Components” and shared some of her personal journey in “Diversity and Inclusion in STEM” as […]

In April, we had our second mental health panel with three alumni panelists and two counselors from UHS. We discussed topics from imposter syndrome (tip: learn to change what you […]

As a part of our invited speaker series, Peter Winzer came back to give a talk on “Digital electronic analysis, synthesis, and manipulation of the full optical field – A […]

As a part of our invited speaker series, world-renowned communications expert, Jean-luc Doumont, conducted an insightful seminar on Monday (27th January) on a systematic approach for delivering strong presentations.

The Student Chapter organized a welcome back party last Friday (24th January). The party included great food, conversations and updates of the chapter itself.

Students from the chapter visited the NextCorps facility in downtown Rochester and were given an overview and tour of the Luminate program, which is an international startup accelerator focused on […]

Students from the SPIE Student Chapter provided different optics demonstrations as a part of the Institute of Optics’ annual High School Connection Showcase on Friday (18th October), where high school […]

As a part of the UR SPIE Chapter’s Invited Speaker series, Peter Winzer from Bell Labs visited the Insitute of Optics on Friday, 18th of October. He had breakfast and […]

Madilyn Beckman, Associate Project Manager at Circle Optics and a recent graduate from the Institute of Optics and the TEAM program, presented a talk on entrepreneurship and the journey that […]

Volunteers from the UR SPIE Student Chapter were at the Brighton Farmers’ Market this past Sunday (8th September) for an ‘Ask a Scientist’ session. They had cool optics demos that […]