Emily Heffernan and Maggie Hess received NSERC USRA Grants to do summer research in the Perk Lab.

Emily is our newest member, a 2nd year student in Electrical and Computer Engineering. She will be working on evaluation of sensory and visual feedback instrumentation for breast conserving surgery navigation.

Maggie is a seasoned and well published Perk Lab researcher, a 3rd year Life Science student. She will be developing a visualization and planning module in SlicerIGT for an articulated snake robot being developed for pediatric ventricular surgery at Sick Kids in Toronto.