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• SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: Grants help students attend meetings in other countries
  OSA Foundation travel grants allow undergraduate and graduate students working or studying in developing nations to attend meetings in other countries
• HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL ELEMENTS: Printing technology enables HOE volume manufacturing
  New master replicating technology that borrows concepts from the printing industry enables volume production of holographic optical elements for applications in general and backlit illumination, displays, and automotive LED-based optics.
• BEAM COMBINING: High-power fiber-laser beams are combined incoherently
  Combining laser beams can boost power at the target far above that produced by a single laser. Incoherent beam combining achieves propagation efficiencies of greater than 90%, while avoiding the complexities of coherent or spectral beam combining.
• SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: Traveling lecturers promote photonics
  The OSA's Traveling Lecturer Program gives members worldwide an opportunity to hear industry luminaries give presentations in a small setting.
• SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: Presidential Award honors teachers of math and science
  The Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching is the highest recognition that a mathematics or science teacher can receive for outstanding teaching in the United States.
• AUTOMOTIVE SAFETY: LED photonics technology lights the way, safely
  Optoelectronics technology is equipping cars with "active" safety features that work as hard as drivers to prevent accidents.
• LASER DIODES: Laser-diode controllers outdo power supplies in diode protection
  Laser-diode controllers provide constant current to laser diodes, as well as solutions to system-design tasks.
• SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: Posters and lesson plans bring optics to the classroom
  The OSA's Optical Phenomena Poster Series sparks discussion in classrooms around the globe.
• SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: Hands-on demonstrations--a great way to capture the attention and imagination of students
  The "Optics Suitcase," developed by the Laboratory for Laser Energetics at the University of Rochester, is an interactive learning package designed for middle-school students.
• Girl Scouts sell cookies,
  but they study optics too
  An OSA Foundation program developed in collaboration with the Girl Scouts of the USA introduces girls to basic concepts in optics and encourages the study of science.