Prof. Kaushik Sengupta has received a Young Investigator Program (YIP) award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) for his proposal "Bit-to-THz: Universally Programmable THz Surfaces with Sub-wavelength Field and Response Synthesis".  The Office of Naval Research will award approximately $16 million in grants to 33 scientists and engineers from 25 academic institutions selected from 360 highly qualified applicants. The purpose of the ONR YIP program is to fund early-career academic researchers whose scientific pursuits show outstanding promise for supporting the Department of Defense as well as to promote their professional development. To read the full story, please click here.