blog posts ECE Professor Kent Choquette named the 2012 recipient of the Nick Holonyak Jr. Award Apr 25, 2012 8:00 amItemsECE Professor Kent D. Choquette was named the 2012 recipient of the Nick Holonyak Jr. Award. Named for ECE Professor Nick Holonyak Jr., the award was established in 1997 by the Optical Society of America (OSA).