Don’t miss out on this one of a kind astronomy workshop in star formation. The venue is close to the magnificent Taj Mahal.
Don’t forget the dates: 15-19 February 2016
Western students may be eligible for an International Travel Award.
Visit www.astronomyattaj2016.com to register now.
Adam Farag was used to looking up, way up. He did so as an atmospheric physics graduate student at Western.
Now as a medical imaging scientist at the Robarts Research Institute at Western University, Adam is co-founder, along with other Robarts scientists, of Ceresensa Inc., which has developed a novel piece of brain imaging equipment.
As fellow founder Dr. Jean Theberge describes in a London Free Press article, “The main idea is that it allows both to happen at the same time, and to have research-grade MRI images while getting the PET scan as well.”
In the near future, similar systems will be developed for prostate and breast scans.
Atmospheric physicist Bob Sica is a co-investigator and mentor at the Ridge Lab of the Polar Environment Research Facility (PEARL) near Eureka on Ellesmere Island in Canada’s high arctic.
The cover of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Survey (CMOS) Bulletin for December 2015 features the deep blue light of the DIAL laser as it shines out of the facility into the frigid arctic night.
Bob’s graduate student Ghazal Farhani will be using the DIAL laser for her upcoming research project.
Emily McCullough successfully defended her PhD thesis on Monday, Dec. 7, 2015. In the photo above, Emily (at left) is shown with her thesis supervisor Dr. Robert Sica (at right).
Prior to the defense, Emily gave a public talk titled, “A new technique for interpreting polarization measurements using the CRL atmospheric lidar in the Canadian High Arctic.”