News & Media
Announcement of Michelson Diagnostics OCT News Student Travel Grant Winner
On November 4th 2009 OCT News in partnership with Michelson Diagnostics and funded by a generous donation from Michelson Diagnostics, announced a $1,500 student travel grant opportunity. The goal of this grant is to assist in the travel expenses of a student to attend the Photonics West Conference on January 24th 2010. We received numerous submissions all of which displayed outstanding work. The awards were ranked by OCT News, Michelson Diagnostics, and an independent 3rd party based on results, presentation, novelty, and potential utility. The final rankings of the top 3rd of the presentations were nearly identical and choosing a winner was difficult. The winner was Yan Wang for her submission on Quantitative assessment of peripheral nerve damage using polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography. Ms. Wang is a second-year graduate student in the PhD program in the Bioengineering Department at University of California, Riverside working with Dr. B. Hyle Park. A brief description and PowerPoint presentation of her work can be found on the OCT News website.