Rachael House receives the 2017-18 Queen's Academic Excellence Award

Amani Ibrahim receives 2nd place in the Queen's 3MT finals

Please join me in celebrating Amani Ibrahim who received 2^nd place in the Queen's University finals of the 3-minute thesis competition.

http://www.queensu.ca/gazette/stories/three-minutes-one-slide-zero-time-waste?utm_source=e-queens-gazette_faculty.

Amani was brilliant, she managed to make even me speechless :-)

--Prof Fichtinger

Christine Yan receives 3rd place award at the Queen’s IEEE Student Paper Competition

Taking into consideration criteria that included relavance, completeness, and technical level, the jurty awarded 3rd place to our Christina Yan, year biomedical computing undegraduate student, for the project titled “Tumor localization needle displacement prior to tumor excision in navigated lumpectomy”. Well done, Christina!

Christina Yan receives Honorable Mention at SPIE 2017 poster competition

Please join me in congratulating Christina Yan, 3rd year biomedical undergraduate student, who received Honorable Mention at SPIE Medical Imaging 2017 conference poster competition.

Zac Baum receives the 2017-18 Queen's Academic Excellence Award

Please join me in applauding Zac Baum, 4th year BMCO undergraduate in the Perk Lab, who has been selected as a recipient of the 2017-18 Academic Excellence Award from the Queen's School of Graduate Studies. This prestigious award recognizes excellence and research potential of applicants who will begin their Master’s studies at Queen’s in 2017-18. The award is valued at $15,000 to support Zac in the his first year of graduate study.

Zac Baum competes for the Sunnybrook Research Prize

Zac Baum has been selected as a national finalist for the Sunnybrook Research Prize 2017. He will compete for the grand prize of $10,000 on January 6 in Toronto. Go, Zac, go!

Vinyas Harish is finalist for Computing Research Association Undergraduate Researchers Award

Vinyas Harish was finalist for the prestigious Computing Research Association (CRA) Undergraduate Researchers Award in 2017. Vinyas represented Queen's admirably in this almost entirely ivy-league competition.

Continuing generosity of our Manju Anand

Present and former Perk Lab undergrads:

Please join me in thanking Manjunath Anand, Perk Lab alumnus, for his continued support to you through the "Perk Lab Undergraduate Research Fund" that he established three years ago. Manju has been providing an annual cash donation that we use for undergraduate conference travel.

I was immensely delighted to inform Manju that this year you submitted nine (9!) first-authored undergrad papers to SPIE 2017 – thus making sure that his generosity continues to be well used.

PerkLab's surgical navigation technology is featured in TEDx talk

Padina Pezeshki's TEDx talk explains the surgical guidance technology that PerkLab developed with KGH and Hotel Dieu Hospital for improving breast tumor resection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hF0sUyrP6k

Emily Heffernan named as 2016 Google Lime Scholar

Emily Heffernan, undergraduate researcher in the Perk Lab, was selected as a 2016 Google Lime Scholar. This is one of the most prestigious distinctions Google bestows on undergraduate students; each year only a dozen are selected for this award from North America - typically from Ivy-league universities. Besides celebrations and lots of fun activities, Google Lime Scholars will also retreat to Mountain View in June 19th – 22nd. I hope Emily will be posting frequently on Facebook!

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