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WNCG student Ahmed Kord won first place in the student poster competition at the Texas Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems 2017 in Waco, Texas. He received the award for his poster entitled “Active Electromagnetic Devices for Next-Generation Wireless Communication Systems.” The first place winner also receives $500.   “This recognition and appreciation of my work motivates me to work even harder,” Kord states. “I want to have an actual and useful imprint on the microwave field during my PhD, and receiving this award means I am one step closer to my goal.”

Prof. Andrea Alù has been elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society for “seminal contributions to electromagnetic theory and applications, nano optics, plasmonics, and metamaterials.” Election to Fellowship in the American Physical Society is limited to no more than one half of one percent of the membership and is recognition by peers of the person’s outstanding contributions to physics.

Prof. Andrea Alù was recognized as an Outstanding Referee by the American Physical Society (APS). This award recognizes scientists who have been exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for publication in APS journals. The highly selective Outstanding Referee program annually recognizes the top 150 of the roughly 60,000 currently active referees.