President and vice-president of SPIE Student Chapter of the University of Trento: Tatevik Chalyan and Claudio Castellan, took part in the SPIE annual meeting on 6-10 August, San Diego, California, within the SPIE Optics + Photonics 2017 conference. They got the People's Choice prize with an experiment on the Snell’s law. 
Cellulose Nanofibrils Films: Molecular Diffusion through Elongated Sub-Nano Cavities 
D. Roilo, C. A. Maestri, M. Scarpa, P. Bettotti, W. Egger, T. Koschine, R. S. Brusa and R. Checchetto
J. Phys. Chem. C, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b02895
We congratulate Stefano Tondini who was awarded by AICA and Rotary International for the Best Master and PhD thesis in ETIC – Ethics and Information and Communication Technologies of 2016 - 2017. 
We congratulate Tatevik Chalyan – the Falling Walls Lab price winner. Tatevik got a grant to participate at the Final Falling Walls conference in Berlin in November, 2017 