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Student Organizations Group at UNC Charlotte honors SPIE Student Chapter at annual Excellence Awards

Student Organizations at UNC Charlotte held their annual Excellence Awards banquet and program on the 28th of April beginning at 5:00 p.m. in the 3rd Floor Salons of the Student Activities Center (SAC). We're pleased to announce that UNC's SPIE Student Chapter won two of the awards and received an honorable mention on a third. WAY TO GO! Pictured (left to right) below are SPIE Student Chapter President Amit Suratkar, Vice-President Yi-Chen Chuang, Secretary/Webmaster Kavan Acharya, Treasurer Kristin Walker and Faculty Advisor Dr. Tsing-Hua Her. Outreach and GPSG Senator Mona Mayeh is not pictured. For information about the Student Organizations group on campus and their annual Excellence Awards, you can visit their website at the link provided above or email them at: studentorgs@uncc.edu

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NCSLI Awards
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Pictured above is Mechanical Engineering Student Charlie Stroup being presented the NCSLI Award by Dr. Robert Hocken. According to Dr. Hocken, the NCSLI each year provides the scholarship money to fund students working on metrology projects. A competition is held and students submit one page essays on their projects. A panel of faculty judge the projects and Dr. Hocken awards the scholarships to the two best.

Congratulations to Amit Suratkar and Charlie Stroup!

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Mingzhen Tang wins Newport and
Spectra-Physics Research Excellence Travel Award
at Photonics West 2008

Student researchers received the Newport and Spectra-Physics Research Excellence Travel Awards at a luncheon ceremony given by SPIE Student Services. Randy Heyler, senior director of Strategic Marketing for Newport, presented the awards. In the photo with the award winners are SPIE President Kevin Harding as well as representatives from Newport.