Festivities!

SKKU school festival took place in the past week. The central lawn was packed with students watching concerts and consuming food. The BME undergrad students participated as one of the lawn food vendors on Friday night. The campus and the festival were completely open to anyone who came by to look (yes, security was light, as this part of the world is very, very safe). SKKU international students presented their traditional food and drinks, some even in their traditional clothing, to create a unique and welcome, international atmosphere in an otherwise very ethnically homogeneous town.

Week of May 15-19

The week started off with a very nice weather. The 15th of May was what is known as the "Teachers' day" in Korea. Cakes and flowers were seen here and there on campus on the occasion.
The lab has been following up on two things this week. First, collecting & comparing 7T images from other research sites (Univ. Iowa and Medical College of Wisconsin), and second, setting up QSM protocols for more patient studies from SMC.
Summer internship applications are now being reviewed. We have a total of 40 applicants. Many of them are interested in psychology and biological research. Very few of them showed interest in engineering aspects of MRI, which is a bit disappointing. The IBS center appears to appeal to the students more for its neuroscience studies than MR technology.

On Thursday, Dr. Bruce Pike from University of Calgary visited the Center to give a very nice, informative and understandable special seminar on quantitative fMRI and clinical applications.