Morehouse College’s Wesley Sims Named as 2022 Recipient of $100,000 IBM-SPIE HBCU Faculty Accelerator Award

BELLINGHAM, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and IBM Quantum have selected Wesley Sims, an assistant professor of physics at Morehouse College, as this year’s recipient of the IBM-SPIE HBCU Faculty Accelerator Award in Quantum Optics and Photonics. Sims is also the director of the college’s Micro/Nano Optics Research & Engineering Laboratory. The $100,000 annual award, presented jointly by the IBM-HBCU Quantum Center and SPIE, the internation