FoTO GRADUATE STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS
Boye Family Graduate Student Scholarship in Optical Sciences
After a long career as a specialist on the New York Stock Exchange , William E . Boye Jr . established the Boye Foundation , Inc . to pursue his philanthropic interest and invited his family to join him in that endeavor .
Since William ’ s death in 2004 , the foundation has been administered by his wife , brother , and four children . His son , Robert , Ph . D . in optical sciences , was actively involved with the Wyant College of Optical Sciences from the time of his graduation in 2000 until his passing in 2018 .
The Boye family continues to follow Bill ’ s example of providing service and support to their communities , both personal and professional . After many years of committed support to the educational mission at the Wyant College of Optical Sciences , the Boye Family is honored to provide this endowed scholarship to deserving students . They wish to also thank Dr . James C . Wyant for helping to make this award possible .
Photo ( above ): William E . Boye Jr . and son Robert , OSC Ph . D . 2000
ANDREW PIZZIMENTI
Beginning his first year as a Ph . D . student , Andrew plans to focus his I plan on studying photonics , specifically squeezed light and its research in the properties of light in quantum information science . applications in quantum information and quantum computing . I His future plans are to continue in academia , helping to further see quantum computing as an avenue that will rapidly advance a quantum information science with his research and mentoring the next multitude of other fields , such as solid-state physics and medicine in generation of students . order to improve the lives of people in the future .
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