The following awards were presented to Michael Polyakov at the 2001 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in San Jose, California for his Laser Teaching Center project entitled Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy of Living Tissue and Its Application for Medical Diagnostics.  Congratulations Mike !

• Best project in the area of Optics and Photonics Engineering,
  from the International Society for Optical Engineering.
  

• Second award in optics, from the Optical Society of America
  

• Fourth award in Physics, presented by Intel
  

• Honorable Mention award from the AAPT / APS
  

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