UVic graduate student places in national competition

At the CARO - COMP Joint Scientific Meeting held September 18 - 21, 2013 in Montréal, Quebec, UVic medical physics graduate student Samantha Harder won second prize in the J.R. Cunningham Young Investigators Award Symposium competition.  This competition represents the pinnacle award in Canadian medical physics for students.  Samantha Harder is a PhD student working under the joint supervision of Dr. Andrew Jirasek, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Victoria and Dr. Will Ansbacher, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver Island Centre.  Congratulations Samantha!

To learn more about the Young Investigators Award and this year's competition, check out the COMP website.