The Optical Society of America is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the founding of the journal Optics Letters. For this anniversary, they published the list of the most cited papers from the journal. Chris' 2001 paper on laser micromachining using low-energy, high repetition rate trains of femtosecond laser pulses is the 34th most cited paper of all time in the journal, with 628 citations as of January 2017. https://www.osapublishing.org/ol40/most-cited-OL-papers.cfm

Congratulations to Amanda Bares, a 6th year PhD student in the lab, for winning an Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Competition prize at the Optical Society of America, Frontiers in Optics conference last week in Rochester, NY. Her paper, "Hyperspectral Imaging in Live Mouse Cortex Using a 48-Channel Multiphoton Microscope", was chosen as a finalist during the paper review process. Finalists were judged on their conference presentation based on their work's technical advances and value to the technical community of interest, and their skill of public presentation.

Chris recently discussed some of our ongoing work using optical techniques to determine the cause of reduced brain blood flow in Alzheimer's disease.

Link to video at The Optical Society

Cornell's new Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) program, funded by the National Institutes of Health, was profiled in Science Careers. One track in Cornell's BEST program focuses on science policy and is led by Chris Schaffer.

Chris Schaffer was elected by the faculty to serve on the University Faculty Committee. This committee serves as a primary liaison between the university administration and the faculty and also acts as the executive committee for the faculty senate (where Chris is also serving as a senator). Chris' term will begin this summer and run through 2017.

Nozomi speaks on The Academic Minute about her new Menopause Health Engineering Initiative!

The McClintock Letters program, organized by Cornell's ASAP (and advised by Chris Schaffer), is being officially recognized by Research Amer!ca for being a "clear voice" for public health communication in a time when it's desperately needed.
Read more about the McClintock Letters here.

 

 

MouseGoggles, the cutesy VR headset developed by Matt Isaacson and Hongyu Chang in the Schaffer-Nishimura and Ellwood Labs, has made its way to the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Move over Nature - being a 15-second gag on late night TV is the real scientific achievement.

Cornell's new Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) program, funded by the National Institutes of Health, was profiled in Science Careers. One track in Cornell's BEST program focuses on science policy and is led by Chris Schaffer.

A blog post on the AAAS Member Central website describes the goals of Chris Schaffer's new science policy course, BME 4440 Science Policy Bootcamp: From Concept to Conclusion. This course is being offered for the first time this Fall, with an enrollment of about 20 undergraduate and graduate student scientists.