Nick Ross and Tahir Irshad Ali Shah recently received a fellowship to participate in a 12-day NIH-funded Annual Short Course in Multiscale Biophotonics (SCMB) at the University of California, Irvine. The course offered a comprehensive curriculum, comprising lectures, demonstrations, labs, workshops, and team science activities, all tailored to enhance technical, operational, and professional skills in Biophotonics for researchers from both academia and industry.