{"id":2346,"date":"2026-04-09T17:53:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/?p=2346"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:58:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:58:24","slug":"excellence-in-applied-research-and-engineering-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/excellence-in-applied-research-and-engineering-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellence in Applied Research and Engineering Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"352\" data-end=\"498\">Honored to receive the <strong data-start=\"375\" data-end=\"431\">Excellence in Applied Research and Engineering Award<\/strong> as part of the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">University of Arizona<\/span><\/span> Convergence Awards. The Convergence Awards represent one of the university\u2019s highest recognitions for interdisciplinary research and impact.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"500\" data-end=\"812\">My work focuses on translating optical physics and systems engineering into ultra-sensitive sensing technologies for biomedical diagnostics, environmental monitoring, and national security, while also enabling new ways to advance biological discovery by directly probing molecular interactions and mechanisms.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"814\" data-end=\"1054\">This recognition reflects the efforts of an incredible group of students, collaborators, and mentors, and the support of agencies including the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">National Science Foundation<\/span><\/span>, the National Institutes of Health, and<span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">\u00a0other federal sponsors.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"814\" data-end=\"1054\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.arizona.edu\/convergence-awards\">Convergence Awards | Research and Partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honored to receive the Excellence in Applied Research and Engineering Award as part of the University of Arizona Convergence Awards. The Convergence Awards represent one of the university\u2019s highest recognitions for interdisciplinary research and impact. My work focuses on translating optical physics and systems engineering into ultra-sensitive sensing technologies for biomedical diagnostics, environmental monitoring, and national security, while also enabling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2346"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2350,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions\/2350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}