Dr. Sheryl Herrera and Maxina Sheft are co-first authors on a recently published paper examining the first measurement of axon diameters in the human brain that measure only 2 one thousandths of a millimetre (2 μm).
Stellar student research was highlighted this month during the 16th annual Randy Kobes Undergraduate Poster Symposium. The event, for a second consecutive year, was held on Zoom with more than 25 students participating.
UWinnipeg, along with UManitoba and CancerCare Manitoba, hosted the Medical Physics Summer Student Symposium virtually last week. In total, five undergraduate students with ties to UWinnipeg participated, including the first- and second-place recipients.
