ECE Professor Oliver Brand has been named associate director for the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology.

ECE Assistant Professor Bo Hong received the Best Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, held November 12-15 in Atlanta.

ECE Professor Miroslav Begovic has been elected president of the IEEE Power and Energy Society.

ECE Professor Ali Adibi was elected as an OSA Fellow, effective January 1.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has approved an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Optical Wireless Applications (COWA), housed in the College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

It is with great sadness that we share with you that our dear friend and colleague, Scott Wills, died on the morning of Friday, December 2 after a long, brave battle with melanoma.

ECE Associate Professor Hsien-Hsin Sean Lee and his Ph.D. student, Jen-Cheng (Tommy) Huang, along with their HP collaborators Matteo Manchiero and Yoshio Turner won the Best Paper Award at the ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Co

ECE Ph.D. student Prabir Saha earned the Best Student Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM).

ECE Ph.D. student Yu-Ting Hsueh was selected for an IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship Award.