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Date Announced: 24 Jul 2013
Winners will be announced in September.
July 24, 2013, Barrington, NJ - Edmund Optics® (EO), the premier provider of optical components to both industry and academia, announced today the finalists for its 2013 Research & Innovation Award Program. More than 800 applications were received from 60 countries around the world. Once again, this year Edmund Optics will be awarding grants totaling over $85,000 USD in Edmund Optics products to the winners.
Fifteen finalists were selected from the regions -- the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The actual three winners of each region of this year's Research & Innovation Award will be announced on September 4, 2013. The next step will then be the selection for the Norman Edmund Inspiration Award honoring one of the winning projects which best embodies the legacy of Edmund Optics' founder, Norman Edmund. It will be awarded with an additional $5,000 USD in products on October 9, 2013.
"This is the fourth year of Research & Innovation Award Program and it is only getting better. It's exciting to see the number of applications we receive from around the world and incredible to learn of the diversity of research that is being conducted at the academic level," remarked Kirsten Bjork-Jones, Director of Global Marketing Communications.
"The technical expertise and determination of the applicants make this grant program extremely rewarding for Edmund Optics. Our mission has always been to support the emergence of new technology and optical innovation - nothing is more satisfying than helping an idea come to fruition."
The 45 hopeful finalists, representing 21 different countries, submitted applications ranging from developing handheld optical coherence tomography (OCT) probes for non-invasive diagnostics in primary healthcare to real-time optical detectors for airborne asbestos detection. Finalists can look forward to joining EO's elite group of grant recipients who continue to accelerate optical innovation.
The difficult task of selecting the winners of this year's program from so many worthy finalists lies now ahead for EO's global award team. The team will select three winners for each region, the Americas, Asia, and Europe respectively, based on the technological value, the innovativeness of the application, in particular in relation to the use of optics, and the relevance to everyday life.
Check back on September 4, 2013 to find out about our 2013 Research & Innovation Award winners. In the meantime, to meet the finalists, please visit www.edmundoptics.com/research.
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