Institute of Optics, University of Rochester
founded 1929
Founded in 1929 as the first Optics education program in the United States by a grant from Kodak and Bausch and Lomb, The Institute of Optics is an academic department in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at The University of Rochester.
Excerpted from "About Us," The Institute of Optics, School on Engineering, University of Rochester, http://www.optics.rochester.edu/about/index.html (accessed 01/13/2015)