Editors-in-Chief's Biographies

Dr. John N. Howard has been a member of the Society for 67 years. John joined OSA in 1944, and he was elected as a Fellow in 1961. He is the 1987 recipient of the OSA Distinguished Service Award. John continues to serve OSA as the editor of OPN's monthly column on the History of OSA. He is also a key contributor to the OSA History Project and a member of the OSA Presidential Advisory Committee.

Dr. John R. Murray was born in Camp White, Oregon, in 1943. He received BS and PhD degrees in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965 and 1970. After two years in the US Army, he joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, where he worked in the laser fusion program until retiring in 2003. He worked on KrF and neodymium glass laser technology, including a major role in the design of the laser system for the National Ignition Facility at Livermore.

Dr. Glenn D. Boreman is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Physics and Optical Science at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He received a BS from Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, and PhD from Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona. From 1984 to 2011, Dr. Boreman served on the faculty of University of Central Florida; for eight years he held the Trustee Chair Professorship in Optics, with 33 MS and 23 PhD students supervised to completion. Dr. Boreman's publications include more than 150 journal articles and three textbooks (Infrared Detectors and Systems, Basic Electro-Optics for Engineers, and Modulation Transfer Function in Electro-Optical Systems). His current research interests include infrared antennas and infrared metamaterials. He is a Fellow of OSA and SPIE. He has been involved with OSA editorial activities for 16 years. He served as a Topical Editor for Applied Optics from 1992-7, was Divisional Editor for Applied Optics —Optical Technology from 1998-2003, was Editor-in-Chief of Applied Optics from 2000-2005, and since 2009 has served as an Associate Editor for Optics Express.

Dr. James C. Wyant is professor at the College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona, where he was Director (1999-2005) and Dean (2005-2012). He received a BS in physics from Case Western Reserve University and an MS and PhD in optics from the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester. Wyant is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of OSA, SPIE, and the Optical Society of India and an Honorary Member of the Korean Optical Society. He was the 1986 President of SPIE and the 2010 President of OSA.

Dr. Joseph N. Mait is a senior technical (ST) researcher in the Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, where he has worked since 1989. He has had academic experience as an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Virginia and as an adjunct associate professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has also held visiting positions at the Lehrstuhl für Angewandte Optik, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany and the Center for Technology and National Security Policy at the National Defense University in Washington DC. He received his BSEE from the University of Virginia in 1979 and received his graduate degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his MSEE in 1980 and Ph.D. in 1985, under Bill Rhodes, a previous editor of Applied Optics.