Scholarships

The OSAF and its partners offer the following scholarships to help university students build successful and rewarding careers in optics and photonics.

Harvey M. Pollicove Memorial Scholarship

Presented annually to a student pursuing a degree in the field of precision optics manufacturing. The $4,000 USD scholarship rotates among several universities including the University of Rochester, the University of Arizona and the University of Central Florida. The 2012 scholarship will be presented to a student at the University of Rochester.

Boris P. Stoicheff Memorial Scholarship

Establishing in partnership with the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) this $3,000 scholarship will be awared to a graduate student who has demonstrated both research excellence and significant service to the optics or physics community. The scholarship rotates annually between the OSAF and CAP Educational Trust Fund (CAP-ETF). The first scholarship will be presented in 2012 by the CAP-ETF.