Engineering graduate student earns young investigator prize

Engineering graduate student earns young investigator prize: "Engineering graduate student earns young investigator prize

Mikhail Rudenko, a graduate student in electrical engineering, received a Young Investigator prize for his presentation at a recent meeting, the 2007 SPIE Photonics West/BIOS Conference in San Jose. The $750 prize--awarded by PicoQuant, a German company that makes lasers and fluorescence systems--was split between Rudenko and Heidi Dietrich of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. According to a PicoQuant press release, the quality of the talks was so high 'it proved extremely difficult for the jury to nominate the winner.'"