Woohoo! Shout out to William (Billy) Reynolds! To enter into candidacy, you have to Propose! You might say it’s a lot of commitment. Billy boldly presented his doctoral thesis plan before a committee comprising professors from a range of disciplines. They thoroughly evaluated the significance, innovation, breadth, and feasibility of his work. Their consensus? Billy is poised to make a…
You heard that right folks, Jennifer Williams defended her thesis. She’s a PhD student in Computational Biology in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She’s interested in using machine learning and statistics with high dimensional data (like brain images!) to learn more about the interplay between structure and function. She’s worked on a number of studies over the years answering…
A comprehensive exam is a key milestone in the progression through a Doctoral degree. The exam involves doing a thorough review of current research and developing a novel project to advance the field of a student’s interest. Joy’s interest were in multimodal imaging and especially Morphometric Similarity Networks (MSNs). The exam is overseen by three DBMI professors who evaluated Joy’s…
Title: Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Properties of Cerebrospinal Fluid and Brain Health Outcomes in Pediatric Congenital Heart Disease Vince will use his F31 to study alterations in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) volume and flow dynamics congenital heart disease (CHD) in children. He is trying to demonstrate that alterations in CSF volumes and perturbation to CSF circulation play a role in poor neurodevelopmental…
Congratulations to the PIRC team on the acceptance of their new paper Reduced Cerebellar Volume in Term Infants with Complex Congenital Heart Disease: Correlation with Postnatal Growth Measurements to Diagnostics! Notably, shout out to collaborator Alexandria Zahner and PIRC members William Reynolds, Nancy Beluk, Ashok Panigrahy and Rafael Ceschin who took lead! Their paper was published in the Pathology and…
Exceptional doctoral and postdoctoral students can be given government grants to help them pay for tuition and living while undergoing their studies. William Reynolds, Joy Roy, and Laura Cabral are all such students who are currently funded by The National Library of Medicine’s T15 grant. As part of the stipulations of receiving the grant, these must go to a training…