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• SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: Setting the course for successful careers
  A group of Ukrainian students, with assistance of the OSA, created a course, "A Practical Course for Young Scientists," to help young scientists plan their careers.
• Thin-film thermoelectric technology makes optoelectronics 'cool'
  Embedded thermoelectric coolers (eTECs) are smaller and thinner than conventional TECs and show promise for direct integration using standard high-volume manufacturing methods.
• SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: Activity grants benefit thousands of students
  OSA Foundation grants to OSA student chapters and local sections benefit students throughout the world.
• TUNABLE SOURCES: Telecom laser investments pay off in near-IR instrumentation
  An ancillary benefit of improved telecom sources has been in other areas requiring tunability such as measurement and fiber-optic sensing systems.
• FIBER-LASER PUMPING: Diode technology advances fiber-laser pumping
  Improved power scaling of fiber lasers is being enabled by advances in high-brightness pump laser diodes—specifically, higher efficiency of the pump semiconductor material itself allowing more power per emitter, and innovations in coupling the diode energy into the target delivery fiber.
• 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.