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OBEL graduate, Kelsey Kennedy, inspiring more young women to study engineering

20th Jul 2016

“An innovative and interactive digital campaign aimed at breaking down the stereotypes associated with engineering and encouraging more young women to study engineering was launched on 15 July 2016 by the Group of Eight (GO8) universities and Engineers Australia, featuring the music of contemporary artists, NERVO. The campaign, known as Made By Me, is a website featuring a video clip with female engineers creating androids using different engineering solutions and technologies.” — READ MORE http://www.madebyme.org.au/engineers/kelsey-kennedy/

SPIE Photonics West 2016 BiOS Hot Topics Plenary Talk

24th Feb 2016

Overcoming depth and contrast limitations of OCT. David Sampson, University of Western Australia, described efforts to overcome the two limitations known all too well by researchers in the field of biomedical optics: constrained depth penetration through tissue, and insufficient contrast to discern structures. More about Photonics West 2016 and BiOS Hot Topics

OSA Student Chapter in the news!

10th Feb 2016

OSA Student Chapter in the news: read more here http://uwa.osahost.org/student_chapter_in_the_news/

Congratulations to Dr Peijun Gong

21st Dec 2015

Peijun Gong was awarded his PhD this week, for his thesis on quantification of skin OCT.

Microscope-in-a-needle wins The Australian newspaper Innovation Challenge 2015

7th Dec 2015

The microscope-in-a-needle project has won The Australian newspaper Innovation Challenge 2015 ‘Read More’ for links to video and university news

Finalists of The Weekend Australian Innovation Challenge, and 2 top cited articles in BOE

26th Oct 2015

Great week for OBEL: microscope-in-a-needle project makes it to the finals of The Weekend Australian Innovation Challenge, and also 2 of our articles join the Biomedical Optics Express 15 top cited list of 2014.

Congratulations Dr. Kelsey Kennedy!

28th Sep 2015

Big congratulations to Kelsey Kennedy on her graduation! Not only has Kelsey graduated, but she was invited to give the valedictory address – an amazing conclusion to her years of hard work! Best wishes from all of us at OBEL.

Vice-Chancellor Awards

10th Sep 2015

Big congratulations to Dr. Brendan Kennedy for being awarded The Vice-Chancellor’s Mid-Career Research Award and Professor David Sampson for being awarded The Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Award.

Romanian Royal reception in honor of Nobel laureate Stefan Hell

9th Sep 2015

OBEL’s Director, Prof. David Sampson, has attended an evening hosted by the Crown Princess and Prince of Romania dedicated to Romanian-born German scientist Stefan Hell, who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2014. More pictures here (Click Read more… to access link)

Farewell to Chinese Research Students

31st Aug 2015

We say goodbye to Chuheng, Jingjie and Guxin (left to right), who have spent 2 very productive month at our lab. Thank you for the great work, and best of luck in your academic careers!