Announcing 2011-2012
Congressional Fellows
OSA, along with co-sponsors SPIE and
the Materials Research Society (MRS),
have selected their 2011-2012 U.S.
Congressional Science and Engineering
Fellows. Anthony Augustine will serve
as the Arthur H. Guenther Congressional Fellow (co-sponsored by OSA and
SPIE) and Laura Povlich will serve as
the OSA/MRS Congressional Fellow.
Both will serve one-year terms working as special legislative assistants on
the staffs of members of Congress or
congressional committees.
Povlich Augustine
The purpose of the Congressional
Fellowships program is to bring technical
and scientific backgrounds and external
perspectives to the decision-making process in Congress. Typically, fellows conduct legislative or oversight work, assist
in congressional hearings and debates,
prepare briefs and write speeches. For
more information, including how to
apply to the 2012-2013 Fellowships, visit
www.osa.org/congressionalfellowships.
OSA CEO Chats with Rep. Holt
Recently, OSA CEO Liz Rogan sat
down with U.S. Congressman Rush
Holt (D-N.J.) to discuss why it is important for scientists to become involved in
public policy efforts such as advocacy
and congressional fellowships. Rep. Holt
was elected in 1998, and he is currently
the only Ph.D. physicist in Congress.
The interview will be previewed during
the upcoming plenary session at OSA’s
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OSA CEO Liz Rogan with Congressman Rush Holt.
Frontiers in Optics meeting in San Jose,
Calif., U.S.A. The full video will be
released in a four-part series on the OSA
website in the coming months. To learn
more about how to get involved in OSA’s
public policy efforts, visit www.osa.org/
about_osa/public_policy.
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F.J. Duarte (right) discusses a lab setup with student member Jorge Tapia.
Fellow Visits Chile
With a grant from the OSA International
Council, OSA Fellow Member Francisco
J. Duarte—who is based in Rochester,
N. Y., U.S.A.—travelled to Chile in June
2011. His visit to Chile was organized
by Ignacio Olivares, a professor at the
University of Santiago. It included hands-on laboratory sessions on how to build
tunable solid-state lasers plus career development discussions with OSA student
members Jorge Tapia, Cristian Moreno
and Cristian Valenzuela.
Left to right: Lingtong Zhang, Cheng Wang, Kristin Mirabal, Tongcun Zhu, Peter Delfyett, Jianlin Cao, Eric Van Stryland, Ming Xuan, Irina Sorokina, David Miller, Peter Unger and Yuhong Bai.
OSA and CIOMP
Host Optics
Summer School
in China
OSA and the
Changchun Insti-
tute of Optics, Fine
Mechanics and
Physics (CIOMP)
organized a joint
international sum-
mer school in early
August, Lasers and
their Applications. Held in Changchun,
the event brought together about 100
students and featured an impressive line-
up of speakers, including Peter Delfyett,
University of Central Florida, CREOL,
U.S.A., James Harris, Stanford Univ.,
U.S.A., David A.B. Miller, Stanford
Univ., U.S.A., Irina T. Sorokina,
Norwegian Univ. of Science & Technol-
ogy, Norway, Peter Unger, University of
Ulm, Germany, Clark Harris, Edmund
Optics, Singapore and Eric Van Stry-
land, University of Central Florida,
CREOL, U.S.A. Ming Xuan, president
of CIOMP and vice minister Jianlin
Cao from the Ministry of Science and
Technology of China opened the school
by emphasizing the importance of global
educational opportunities.
Hannah Bembia ( hbembia@osa.org) is OSA’s
publications administrative assistant.
