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Tustin, CA--Optical design and engineering company LightWorks Optics hired Chris Yarbrough as director of program management.

San Jose, CA--SEMI appointed Douglas A. Neugold chairman of its International Board of Directors, and also appointed David B. Miller and Ho-Ming Tong to the International Board.

Sunnyvale, CA--Mike Kelly was appointed vice president of sales for the cable market--a newly created position--at Infinera.

Oxford, MA--IPG Photonics chairman and CEO Valentin Gapontsev received the 2010 Russian Federation National Award in Science and Technology.

Toronto, ON, Canada--Phototherapy company Theralase appointed James R. Andrews as chairman to its Medical and Scientific Advisory Board, along with additional appointments.

San Jose, CA--The recipient of the 2011 Achievement Award from the I3A is Jonathan Phillips, senior scientist at the Eastman Kodak Company.

Los Angeles, CA--Yutong Wu was appointed general manager, Albany Operations, and director of commercial marketing for APIC/CNSE to commercialize integrated optoelectronic devices.

Bellingham, WA--SPIE and the Optical Society, along with ThorLabs and Toptica Photonics honored student researchers for biomedical excellence at the recent ECBO conference in Munich.

Munich, Germany and Bellingham, WA--Dhriti Sundar Ghosh and Oriol Bertran-Pardo were awarded the third Photonics21 Student Innovation Award.

Ottawa, ON, Canada and Marietta, GA--Optical transport systems company Optelian appointed Stephen Loudermilk to the position of director of marketing.

Irvine, CA--Gary Pitre was appointed national sales manager for Toshiba Imaging Systems Division.

Sunnyvale, CA--Optical networking company Infinera announced the appointment of Michael Capuano as vice president of corporate marketing.

Ontario, NY--Kate Medicus was hired by Optimax to help the company increase its metrology capabilities.

Berlin, Germany--Nanoanalytic instrumentation company JPK Instruments has appointed Thomas Neicke and Elmar Hartmann as new members of the sales team.

Victor, NY--In his new role as US Applications Specialist at TOPTICA Photonics, Chris Haimberger will focus his time on customers.

Farum, Denmark--The prestigious "Electro Prize 2011" award went to Bjarke Rose, VP of spectrometer modules at Ibsen Photonics, for his work with optical sensing systems.

North Sutton, NH--Labsphere, a Halma Company, promoted Greg McKee to vice president of engineering.

Sunnyvale, CA--Most recently senior VP of technology at Verizon Communications until his retirement in July 2010, Mark A. Wegleitner joined the Infinera board of directors.

Dunedin, FL--Ocean Optics software engineer Nelson Chandler was awarded the $32,000 dollar Gold Award for Innovation from its parent company, Halma p.l.c.