OSA announces election results
Erich Ippen, Elihu Thompson Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA), has been elected 1998 vice president of the Optical Society of America (OSA; Washington, DC). Also elected as at-large members of the 1998 board of directors were Connie J. Chang-Hasnain--professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California (Berkeley, CA), Peter F. Moulton--senior vice president for corporate development at Schwart¥Electro-Optics (Bedford, MA), and Eric Van Stryland--professor of physics and electrical and computer engineering at the Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers at the University of Central Florida (Orlando, FL).