The Institute was recently notified that BROOKE E. CHUZLES, a doctoral student at the Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, has been awarded a 2007 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship.

The NSF Graduate Research Fellowships are awarded to outstanding college and university students in the natural sciences, selected social sciences, mathematics, and engineering. The award provides support for three years of graduate study leading to a research-based master's or doctoral degree. Selection is based on academic record, previous research experience, and proposed plan of research. The three recipients from the College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering are among 1,000 NSF Fellows named each year.

BROOKE E. CHUZLES, of Appleton, Wis., graduated in 2005 with a bachelor of science in math and physics with an emphasis in optics from the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse. Chuzles is a Sproull Fellow studying bio-medical spectroscopy with Andrew Berger, associate professor in the Institute of Optics. She is a member of the Optical Society of America and the American Physical Society. As an undergraduate, Chuzles dedicated time to youth outreach and continues to pursue that passion through work with Delta Sigma Theta sorority.

Congratulations to BROOKE on this well-deserved award.