Ravi Menon (cross-appointed within Physics and Astronomy, photo at right) is the Principal Investigator of one of Western’s 5 successful CFI awards: “Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping (CFMM)” (total amount: $6,235,244).
Blaine Chronik (Physics and Astronomy, Robarts scientist, member of the CFMM, photo on left) is one of the 9 co-investigators on this award. This grant will enable substantial upgrades to the 3 and 7 Tesla MRI scanners within the CFMM at Robarts, maintaining the status of the CFMM as the most advanced human MRI facility in Canada. This grant is highly integrated with Dr. Chronik’s grant: “Centre for the testing and development of MR-compatible medical devices and technology”. The upgraded MR facilities at the CFMM parallel the testing facilities to be installed in the physics department, and together they represent unparalleled capacity for MR-compatible technology development.
David Holdsworth (Surgery and Medical Biophysics) is the Principal Investigator of one of Western’s 5 successful CFI awards: “Facility for Load-bearing Imaging, Biomechanics and Clinical Orthopaedics Research (LIBCOR)” (total amount: $3,356,688).
Blaine Chronik (Physics and Astronomy, Robarts scientist) is one of the 9 co-investigators on this award. The proposed facility incorporates infrastructure for load-bearing imaging of joints and quantitative imaging of soft-tissue, organized within 3 suites: the Dynamic Imaging Suite, the 3D Imaging Suite, and the Software Suite.
Dr. Chronik is responsible for the component of the grant which uses the 3T MRI system within the CFMM at Robarts, and which will be substantially upgraded for orthopaedic imaging applications.
Dr. Paul Wiegert (photo at right) is presented with an award of recognition from Aylmer District conservation officer Matt McVittie of the Ministry of Natural Resources.
Also present was officer Duncan Hall, who took the photograph.
The award recognizes Paul’s long standing assistance in providing the Ministry with sunrise/sunset ephemeris data in the legal pursuit against poaching.
Above the old Sutter’s Mill, near Coloma, California, it literally rained meteorites last April 22, 2012. The small fragments could be heard clanking and bouncing from rooftops, in a similar fashion to the famous Canadian Grimsby meteorite of 2009.
Dr. Peter Brown and PhD candidate Elizabeth Silber were on a large international team that has published some astounding results of preliminary research on the Sutter’s Mill meteorite in Science Magazine.
It turns out that this object is a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite of the Carbonaceous-Meghei class (CM), containing some of the oldest known material in our solar system.
Brown and Silber studied the infrasound shock waves that were produced as the meteorite entered the atmosphere over California.
Capuchin monkey fairness test.
