Three Ph.D. students in Electrical & Computer Engineering from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) earned top honors for their poster presentations at the 2015 Science & Technology Open House, held last week at the Renaissance Hotel in Montgomery, Ala. Abubaker Tareki took home first prize and a cash award of $1000 for his poster, "Enhancing Nano/Bio Sensors in the Terahertz Regime via Research in Tunable Metamaterials Using Liquid Crystals." Seyed Sadreddin Mirshafieyan took home second prize and a cash award of $800 for his poster, "Optical Colors and Perfect Light Absorption in Silicon Nanostructures." And William Gaillard took home third prize and a cash award of $600 for his poster, "Microfluidic Reactor Development for Oligonucleotide Synthesis."