Current Campaigns

Your financial support has twice the impact! Every dollar donated to the
OSA Foundation is matched 100% by an Optical Society donation to the OSAF General Fund.

Annual Campaign - Every Member Counts

We’re asking every Member to support the OSA Foundation                                                            2012 Annual Campaign.  Every gift makes an impact!

To view the Foundation brochure click here .

Your donation to the Annual Campaign provides ongoing funding for
grant programs such as Student Travel Grants, Scholarships, Recognitions,
and Professional Development Programming.

Michael S. Feld Biophotonics Award and Fundraising Campaign                                     Recognizes individuals for their innovative and influential contributions to the field of biophotonics, regardless of their career stage. 


Paul Anthony Bonenfant Memorial Scholarship
Enables undergraduate students enrolled in engineering and/or physical science programs to attend semester-abroad programs.

Siegman International Summer School on Lasers
Campaign to establish an international summer school in honor of Anthony E. Siegman.

Optics Suitcase Sponsorship
Provides teachers and volunteers with an innovative, interactive presentation package designed to introduce middle school students to a variety of science concepts including polarization, diffraction and selective reflection.


Award Campaigns

General Award Fund
This fund helps to sustain underfunded awards and honors as needed.

Award/Medal Area of Recognition

Max Born Award

Outstanding contributions to physical optics (theoretical or experimental)

Paul F. Forman Engineering Excellence Award

 Technical achievements in optical engineering by an individual or team
Distinguished Service Award Service to the optics community
Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize Accomplishments in optical engineering
Robert E. Hopkins Leadership Award Significant impacts on the global optics and photonics community or on society as a whole
Emmett N. Leith Medal Seminal contributions to the field of optical information processing
C.E.K. Mees Medal Interdisciplinary and international contributions that exemplify the thought that "optics transcends all boundaries"
William F. Meggers Award Outstanding work in spectroscopy
David Richardson Medal Contributions to optical engineering
Edgar D. Tillyer Award Distinguished work in the field of vision

R. W. Wood Prize

 Outstanding discovery, scientific or technological achievement or invention

Herbert Walther Award

Scientific contributions and international community-building

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