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July 1, 2024

MAGIC Lab awarded $200k from the National Science Foundation

Dr. Wiacek and the MAGIC Lab were awarded a $200k Engineering Research Initiation (ERI) grant to develop 3D breast ultrasound systems and algorithms for low-resource environments from the National Science Foundation (NSF)! More details can be found on the NSF website: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2346962&HistoricalAwards=false

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May 21, 2024

Dr. Wiacek wins prestigious ORAU Junior Faculty Enhancement Award

Dr. Wiacek was awarded the prestigious Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement award from the Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORA). The award was sponsored by The Augmented Reality for Enterprise Alliance (The AREA)!

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April 26, 2024

Karim graduates with his BS in Bioengineering

Congratulations to MAGIC Lab undergraduate student, Karim George for graduating with his Bachelor's in Bioengineering today and for the official completion of his Honors College Thesis! Best of luck in dental school!

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April 17, 2024

Luc and Rehnuma win Provost Research awards

Congratulations to MAGIC Lab graduate student, Rehnuma Hasnat, and undergraduate student, Luc Taburet, who were both award Provost Research Awards from Oakland University! This gives them each $1500 toward the continuation of their cutting edge research!

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November 15, 2023

Molly wins Undergraduate Poster award from Sigma Xi

Congratulations to MAGIC Lab undergraduate researcher, Molly Vue, for winning the Undergraduate Poster award from the Sigma Xi International Forum on Research Excellence (IFoRE)! Molly presented her work titled "Development of a neural network to jointly improve ultrasound and elastography image quality" at the IFoRE conference in Long Beach, CA.

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May 18, 2023

Yasmeen wins prestigious SECS Academic Achievement Award

Congratulations to undergraduate Yasmeen Hassan for being awarded the prestigious SECS Academic Achievement Award which is presented to the graduating senior who, in the judgment of the faculty, has achieved an outstanding level of academic excellence.

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March 29, 2023

Dr. Wiacek organizes a panel for the American Institute for Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) UltraCon

Dr. Wiacek helped to organize a session titled "Nerd Out - Wearable and At-Home Ultrasound: Controversies and What's Possible" at the 2023 American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) UltraCon. The panel included speakers spanning academic research, government, and industry!

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February 18, 2023

Dr. Wiacek wins funding from the Michigan Space Grant Consortium (MSGC)

Dr. Wiacek was awarded $10,000 from the Michigan Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to support the work "Quantitative Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Imaging of Thrombosis"

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December 5, 2022

Dr. Wiacek wins funding from the Oakland University Research Committee

Dr. Wiacek was awarded $10,000 from the Oakland University Research Committee (URC) to support the work "Working Together to Improve Ultrasound and Elastography Image Quality with Deep Learning"

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