CNIR all-hands meeting and newcomers

Several new graduate students to the BME department and CNIR were introduced at a monthly all-hands meeting today. Out of six introduced, three were not-so-new; they did summer internship in 2016 and must have liked the Center enough to come to study here. Seulki was of course one of the returning students. Welcome! Among other things discussed were updates on Siemens Research Agreement and the 7T plan. On both fronts there have been much progress in the past few weeks, and according to Dr. Kim the breakthroughs on the two ends are likely related. It turns out that there is suddenly a very high likelihood that CNIR will have regular research access to "some" 7T scanner in about a year. Such development is likely to significantly benefit future talent hiring.