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In this issue: OSA Commemorates Women in Optics, OSA Traveling Lecturer, Nominations Open: 2017 National Medal of Science, Upcoming Deadlines, Meetings and more.
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OSA Commemorates the Women of Optics
 This month, OSA celebrates women in our field by sharing special tributes from members. We have captured over 750 voices from our industry with stories ranging from mentorship, research discoveries, inspiration and leadership. Please watch this video where three OSA Members discuss their passion for the field.
We encourage you to also visit osa.org/womeninscience to post a tribute, read a story or hear colleagues discuss their dedication to advancing the field of optics and leveraging photonics to improve our world. All posted tributes get shared via @OpticalSociety and are emailed to the honoree.
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María J. Yzuel Awarded ‘Gender Equality Award – igUAldad 2107’
 OSA Fellow Member María Josefa Yzuel, professor emeritus at Autonomous University, Barcelona Spain, has been awarded this year’s Gender Equality Award (igUAldad) by the University of Alicante, Spain, in recognition for her commitment to gender equality and her academic and scientific careers.
With the creation of the Association of Women Researchers and Technologists, Yzuel works towards defending non-discrimination and equal opportunities for women and men in academia with the objective of helping and fostering the incorporation of young women researchers into the research field.
The ‘Gender Equality Award (igUAldad)’ recognizes the work carried out by individuals, groups, entities or institutions which stand out for their defense of equality between women and men, and also to professionals whose trajectory exemplifies academic excellence, for giving visibility to the contribution of women in scientific advances and social progress, and helping to break away from the androcentric perspective prevailing over science, research and academia. This prize was first awarded in 2013 and coincided with the commemoration of International Women’s Day.
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Child Care Support for Conferences
OSA is committed to making participation in the Society rewarding and enjoyable for everyone in the OSA community. Grants of up to four hundred dollars (US$ 400) per family, per calendar year, are available to assist OSA Members who are bringing children to CLEO:2017 and/or FiO 2017 or who incur additional expenses in leaving them at home (e.g., extra day care or babysitting services). Grants may be used for a single meeting or may be divided between eligible conferences during the calendar year. Members are encouraged to complete this application at least 30 days prior to the start of the CLEO conference.
Grant recipients are solely responsible for their choice of child care provider. OSA does not endorse any child care providers.
For questions, please contact Pamela Wimmer at pwimmer@osa.org
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Ursula Gibson, OSA Vice-President, Participates in Optical Society of Korea (OSK) Winter Annual Meeting
During the 2017 OSK Winter Annual Meeting at the High1 Resort in Jeongsun-kun, Korea OSA Vice-President Ursula Gibson delivered a plenary talk and tutorial on semiconductor-core optical fibers and attended a special session for female scientists. Gibson also presented the 2016 Sang Soo Lee Award to Sang-Sam Choi, for pioneering the development of optical fiber in South Korea which led to flourishing optical fiber and optical communication industries, and the 2017 OSA-OSK Student Prize to Changmin Lee for his paper "Calculating the threshold energy of the pulsed laser sintering of silver and copper nanoparticles".
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OSA Traveling Lecturer Spotlight: Mary Lou Jepsen
 It was the candid honesty over private lunch with just a dozen doctoral students that stays with me. I went there to be dazzled by them, the postdocs and the professors in the labs of Washington University in St. Louis, a leader in biomedical imaging - an area that I’m now working in full-time. By lunchtime I was full of ideas and enthusiasm for their work, and thrilled at the opportunity to see it up-close. In return I was to “sing for my supper.” Later that afternoon with an OSA Fellow lecture, which had been seeded over drinks on a cruise ship at an OSA conference the previous spring. My main goal on this visit was to develop some lasting bonds; I have been greatly inspired by work done at Washington University
But this lunch brought me back in time to my own earlier choices. These brilliant young scientists described the struggle to persevere with their PhDs, the long years on meager compensation, the reality of credit still being apportioned in a non-linear way that doesn’t reflect (or credit) all who contribute or even those who contribute most. Hairline decisions like whose paper gets to be published first, in what journal and who gets listed as first author - make or break early careers. I tried to advocate tenacious pursuit of excellence in unusual areas - as a way to build both a more interesting life, and the opportunity to develop unique perspectives yielding real and lasting impact. In other words, you can sometimes go much further along the roads less traveled.
Thank you to the OSA Traveling Lecturer Program for providing this opportunity.
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 We invite you to join OSA for the March for Science on 22 April 2017. You can learn more about how you can participate with OSA in this international, non-partisan celebration of science at osa.org/marchforscience. If you have questions or comments, please contact marchforscience@osa.org.
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Call for Nominations: OSA Honorary Member
Submission Deadline: 1 April
The most distinguished of all OSA Member categories, Honorary Membership is awarded to individuals who have made unique, seminal contributions to the field of optics. The roster of living Honorary Members demonstrates the high stature of this designation: Arthur Ashkin, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Roy J. Glauber, John L. Hall, Theodor W. Hänsch, Stephen E. Harris, Robert W. Hellwarth, Nick Holonyak, Donald B. Keck, Herwig Kogelnik, John C. Mather, William D. Phillips and Emil Wolf.
Any OSA Member may nominate someone for election to Honorary Member status by sending a 1-page brief advocacy statement discussing the candidate to awards@osa.org or by mail:
OSA Awards Office
2010 Massachusetts Ave., NW,
Washington, DC, USA 20036
Learn more and view the complete list of OSA Honorary Members here.
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Nominations Open: Mensa Foundation Prize
Submission Deadline: 1 April
The Mensa Foundation Prize is awarded biennially for the best scientific discovery in the field of intelligence or creativity. Endowed by the estate of Kenneth Douglas Thomson (1934-2013), the award includes a $10,000 prize, personal plaque and medal.
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Nominations Open: 2017 National Medal of Science
Submission Deadline: 7 April
Nominations are now being accepted for the National Medal of Science. The National Medal of Science was established by the 86th Congress in 1959 as a Presidential Award to be given to individuals "deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to knowledge in the physical, biological, mathematical, or engineering sciences." In 1980 Congress expanded this recognition to include the social and behavioral sciences. See details about the nomination process and the selection criteria here.
Nominations must be submitted electronically using NSF's FastLane system.
Please direct all inquiries about the award and the nomination procedures to nms@nsf.gov
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Call for Nominations: Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award
Submission Deadline: 2 July
The Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award is a great opportunity to showcase the value and importance of engineer teams! Named in memory of Paul F. Forman, the award recognizes technical achievements such as product engineering, process and software development, and patent development, as well as contributions to society such as engineering education, publication and management, and furthering public appreciation of optical engineering. Submit a team nomination before the deadline.
The award will be presented in during Frontiers in Optics 2017, OSA’s Annual Meeting. Recent winners include: Advanced LIGO Engineering Team, Logic Analysis Tool Team (LAT Team), Intel Silicon Photonics Solutions Group, ZygoLOT Automotive Precision Optical Team, and Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) Lidar Team.
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Call for Nominations: OSA Treasurer's Award
Submission Deadline: 10 August
New award recognizing contributions made by OSA Staff Members
Established in 2016, the OSA Treasurer's Award honors the dedication, efficiency, innovation and leadership demonstrated by the OSA staff. It is presented to a staff member who makes significant contributions to organizational excellence, promotes and enacts innovative solutions or exemplifies inspirational leadership. Nominations may be submitted by current OSA Member and staff members.
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Call for Nominations: John Tyndall Award
Submission Deadline: 10 August
The John Tyndall Award co-sponsored with IEEE Photonics Society, recognizes an individual who has made outstanding contributions in any area of optical-fiber technology, including optical fibers themselves, the optical components used in fiber systems, as well as transmission systems and networks using fibers. Submit your nominations to IEEE Photonics Society.
For complete details about OSA’s Awards and Honors Program, visit osa.org/awards
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You’re Invited: OSA Member Reception
Sunday, 25 June
Will you be in Munich, Germany for CLEO/Europe – EQEC, ECBO or the World of Photonics? OSA Members are invited join OSA President Eric Mazur and OSA CEO Elizabeth Rogan at a Member Reception on Sunday evening. For more information and to RSVP, email RSVPOSAevent@osa.org.
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There is No Market for Nanophotonics — Part 2
 In last month's OIDA newsletter, we described what nanophotonics was, and that it is a discipline, a set of enabling technologies, not a market. But there is a market for the things that nanophotonics does and this is true of other enabling photonics technologies as well. But what makes it so difficult and if these aren't markets, why do we assign values anyway?
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