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Each year, SPIE promotes members as new Fellows of the Society. SPIE will honor 56 new Fellows of the Society this year. Fellows are Members of distinction who have made significant scientific and technical contributions in the multidisciplinary fields of optics, photonics, and imaging. They are honored for their technical achievement, for their service to the general optics community, and to SPIE in particular. More than 480 SPIE members have become Fellows since the Society's inception in 1955.

This year, Prof. Seth Marder from the School of Chemistry & Biochemistry has been honored with this distinction for specific achievements in nonlinear optical properties of organic and metal-organic materials.

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Membership includes a Fellows Program, with close to 500 individual Society Fellows inducted to date from a wide range of technical disciplines and application areas. This recognition program honors professional contributions of Members. An Award Program also serves to recognize individuals throughout the scientific community regardless of Membership status and to bring their achievements to light.

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Congratulations, Seth!