Nader Engheta, the H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering at Penn, received the Gold Medal from SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. He was recognized for his transformative and groundbreaking contributions to optical engineering of metamaterials and nanoscale plasmonics, metamaterial-based optical nano circuits and biologically-inspired optical imaging. The Gold Medal is the highest honor bestowed by SPIE.

For more information on Dr. Engheta, see the July 14, 2015 issue of Almanac.