Congratulations to Dr. Harry Allen, who won the Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement for his PhD thesis, "Development and Application of a Multimodal Coherent Raman Scattering Microscope,” at last week's convocation. Dr. Allen was the Physics Department’s first graduate of the Biomedical Engineering PhD program. Congratulations also to his supervisor, Dr.
Congratulations to Victoria Howard (MSc student) and Mehan Haidari (PhD student) on their 1st and 3rd place wins in the Young Investigators competition at the 2024 Canadian Organization of Medical Physics (COMP) annual scientific meeting in Regina!
Congratulations to all our graduate student who were accepted for talks at the COMP meeting in Regina, including 3 students participating in the Young Investigators Symposium.
Here is a full list of our student presentations (grad students names italicized):
Young Investigators Symposium
We are saddened to announce that Ian Smith passed away on May 9. Ian was the sole Director General of the NRC Institute of Biodiagnostics in Winnipeg (with satellite locations in Halifax and Calgary) from its opening in 1992 until it closed in 2013.
Congratulations to Dr. Avery Berman's Functional Neuroimaging Physics Lab for their talks at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) in Singapore (May 4–9).
Congratulations to Harry Allen on the successful defence of his PhD thesis, "Development and Application of a Multimodal Coherent Raman Scattering Microscope”.
Congratulations to Quinn de Bourbon on the successful defence of her MSc thesis “Uncovering the limits of detection of Artificial Intelligence using synthetic lesions in Positron Emission Tomography".
Congratulations to Ecem Cevik on the successful defence of her MSc thesis 'Demonstration of a Cruciform Gamma-Ray Direction-Finder with both self-shielding and Compton imaging modes'.