10 July: Dr Francesco Poletti, a research fellow at the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), Southampton, has recently been awarded two prestigious fellowships from the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering. Read More...

9 July: ORC Deputy Director, Professor David Richardson, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in recognition for his contributions to engineering. Read More...

17 June: Kate Sloyan, a first year PhD student at the ORC won a poster prize at the recent European Materials Research Society (EMRS) Spring Meeting in Strasbourg. Read More...

22 May: The University of Southampton's striking new Mountbatten Building, which has risen from the ashes of the fire that destroyed its predecessor in October 2005, has won a top architecture award. Read More...

22 May:The founder and CEO of Fibre laser company Fianium, Professor Anatoly Grudinin recently presented a prize of £1000 to ORC PhD student Nikita Daga.Read More...

20 May: A group of researchers at the Optoelectronics Research Centre are set to connect their Systems lab to four other universities in England via the JANET Aurora later this month Read More...

2 April: The Optoelectronics Research Centre recently held their annual Colloquium. Read More...

2 April: The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded the University of Southampton £6 million to establish a centre for nanostructured photonic metamaterials. Read More...

2 April: Professor Nikolay Zheludev, Deputy Director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, has recently been announced as a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award winner. Read More...

25 March:The OSA student chapter recently took part in a murder mystery game at the University’s Science and Engineering outreach day. Read More...

25 March:The new Mountbatten building has been short listed for a Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) award. Read More...

9 March: Professor Nikolay Zheludev, Deputy Director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre, Southampton, faced a panel of venture capitalists at a Dragons Den style seminar at the recent Pioneers 09 Conference. Read More...

ORC Deputy Director Professor Nikolay Zheludev has recently been announced as the new Editor-in-Chief for the Institute of Physics (IOP), Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics. Read More

9 March The University of Southampton OSA Student Chapter recently attended the 5th International OSA Network of Students meeting (IONS-5) in Barcelona. Read More...

16 February The Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton recently played host to a meeting of the South East Photonics Network (SEPNET). Read More

The quality of the research carried out at the Optoelectronics Research Centre has once again been highlighted through excellent ratings in the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008. Read More