Announced by the college last week, Bahram Jalali, PhD; a pioneer of silicon photonics and a prolific inventor of record-setting imaging and sensing technologies and algorithms, has established an endowed chair in his name at the University of Arizona James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences. Bahram wishes for his endowed chair to support faculty whose innovations and discoveries will further the global impact of optical technologies. 

Congratulations are in order for Tianyao Zhang who took home third place in the SPIE Photonics West AR VR MR student optical design challenge competition. Yexin Pei and Gregory M. Nero also participated in the optical design challenge. Prof. Yuzuru Takashima advises the students and Prof. Yushi Kaneda co-advises the winner. Yuzuru said of the competition and his students' participation, "Tianyao, Greg, and Yexin participated the student optical design challenge competition at SPIE ARVRMR. All presented very well, and Tianyao got a prize!"

As the Superbowl approaches in Phoenix, AZ the Wyant College was invited to participate in a special VIP Media event hosted by UArizona.

It’s that time of year!  Wyant College's 2023-2024 academic year departmental scholarships are now available for application.  The application deadline for all departmental scholarships is March 19, 2023, at 11:59pm.  

Congratulations to Wyant College alumnus, Justin Hyatt (PhD, 2019) and co-founders Roslyn Norman and Christian Davila on securing an additional $1M SBIR grant from the National Science Foundation to build a full-scale commercial production line for their startup Paramium Technologies. 

Wyant College is pleased to welcome Associate Research Professor Ni Chen. Ni completed her Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering in 2014 at Seoul National University. Ni's research explores the interaction between light waves and objects, seeking general tools in computations that enable us to solve fundamental issues in existing 3D/4D optical imaging techniques.