Congratulations and good luck to our fourth MS class which graduated today. As noted in the previous news entry, Lei Ren also became our first ever PhD graduate. The full list of graduates is shown in the table below.
| Name | Degree | Advisor | Thesis/Scholarship Title |
| Maryann Ozidu Abogunde | MS | T.Yoshizumi | Thesis: Small Animal Dosimetry in Cesium-137 and Orthovoltage X-ray Irradiators |
| William Edwin Brown | MS | M.Oldham | Thesis: Verification of Advanced Gating Techniques using novel 4D Dosimeter |
| Corey Gray Clift | MS | M.Oldham | Thesis: Application of a novel 3D Dosimetry Technique to the Investigation of Small Photon Fields |
| Adam I Cohen | MS | T.Turkington | Thesis: Data Driven Respiratory Gating in 2D PET |
| Latoya Geneen Crayton | MS | J.Wu | Thesis: Analysis of patient motion in head and neck image-guided radiation therapy |
| Ryan Miller Davis | MS | M.Dewhirst | Thesis: Simultaneous Monitoring of Temperature Sensitive Liposome Content Release and Tumor Temperature with MRI. |
| William Michael Giles | MS | J.Bowsher | Thesis: Timing and Communications for a Synchronous Dual X-Ray System |
| D’Vone Jackson | MS | M.Tornai | Project: Fully 3D Breast Dosimetry Using a Dedicated Breast CT System |
| Sherry Allison Leeper | MS | S.Yoo | Thesis: Evaluation of In-Room Cone-beam CT Imaging Techniques Compared to CT for Dose Calculation |
| Brandon Cole Mader | MS | M.Oldham | Thesis: Advantages of Patient-based margin definition for dosimetry in the presence of cervical motion |
| Jessica Lee Nute | MS | T.Turkington | Thesis: Reliability of measurements of change in PET SUV |
| Jason Paisley | MS | T.Yoshizumi | Thesis: Comparative Study of Interal Dose Asessment between Whole Body Counter and Gamma camera |
| Christopher John Veale | MS | Zh.Wang | Thesis: Amplitude gated Breath-Hold Treatment for Heart Dose Reduction in Left Breast Cancer Patients: Residual Motion and Breath-Hold Threshold |
| Nagabindu Vulli | MS | S.Das | Thesis: Effect of fluence map smoothness on the deliverability of Head-Neck tumors designed on Eclipse |
| Tian Zhang | MS | Zh.Wang | Thesis: Comparison of ITV-based and Amplitude-gated Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) for Lung Cancers |
| Lei Ren | PhD | F.-F.Yin | “Dissertation: DTS for image guided radiation therapy” |
In addition, congratulations also go to the following award recipients for this year. Awards are given out during the program’s private ceremony during commencement weekend.
Director’s Award for Exemplary Service Terry Yoshizumi, Mark Oldham, Haijun Song, Sherry Leeper, Vorakarn Chanyavanich, Ross McGurk, Francisco Robles
Excellence in Research Award for MS Student Maryann Abogunde
Excellence in Research Award for PhD Student Xiang Li
Excellence in Teaching Award (based on students’ vote) Shiva Das
Excellence in Teaching Assistantship Award (nominated by students) Jennifer Seger
Excellence in Mentorship Award (nominated by students) Mark Dewhirst, Terry Yoshizumi
Excellence in Academic Performance Award (all first year students, based on GPA) Hao Li
Excellence in Academic Performance Award (all second year students based on GPA) Francisco Robles
Carey E. Floyd Jr. Graduate Fellowship: ($1,000 stipend supplement) Vorakarn Chanyavanich
