====== McMaster Biophotonics Group News Achieves ======
  * Sept. 2022: Welcome new master's student Yiping Wang
  * June 2022: Welcome visiting PhD student Antonin Deschempes from INRIA Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique and international intern Clement Nombalay from Centrale Nantes
  * May 2022: Morgan is doing a graduate internship at Wescam/L3 Harris
  * May 2022: Welcome new master's student Hailey Wang
  * Jan. 2022: Welcome international intern Juliette Jacquot from ISIFC Besançon 
  * Jan. 2022: Welcome new master's student Andrea Buendia
  * 2022 We moved to the newly renovated BIMR Photonics Lab space
  * April 2021: Congratulations to Helen for receiving the MIRA Summer Undergraduate Research Award.
  * August 2020: Michael is awarded an AGE-WELL/MIRA scholarship for PhD research in Aging.
  * Oct. 2020: Congratulations to Eric for a successful defense and completing his PhD.
  * September 2020: Welcome new master's student Melissa from Townson State.
  * August 2020: Michael is awarded an AGE-WELL/MIRA scholarship for PhD research in Aging.
  * August 2020-August 2021: Jacob is doing a graduate internship at Wescam/L3 Harris.
  * May 2020: Welcome new master's student Guha from Western.
  * May 2019: Morgan and Fares have won the MITACS-JSPS Fellowship for research exchange in Hamamatsu. 
  * May 2019: Michael is awarded CGS scholarship. 
  * March 2019: Jessica won a graduate entrepreneur fellowship, the Judge's choices award, and the Forge student start award in the Forge Student startup contest.  
  * March 2019: Eric and Michael are awarded OGS scholarship.  
  * September 2017-August 2018: Ian and Eric are doing PhD internship at Wescam and Trojan Technologies.
  * May 2018: Michael is awarded a CGS-M scholarship.  
  * September 2017-August 2018: Ian and Eric are doing PhD internship at Wescam and Trojan Technologies.  
  * September 2017: Du is accepted to the medical physics residency program at the Juravinski Cancer Center. 
  * August 2017: Alex is awarded the [[http://agewell-nce.ca/age-well-graduate-student-and-postdoctoral-awards-in-technology-and-aging|AGE-WELL Graduate Scholarship]]  
  * May 2017: Colleen is awarded the [[https://www.mitacs.ca/en/programs/globalink|MITACS Global-Link Scholarship]] to spend 4-month in Soochow University 
  * March 2017: Alex won the Forge student start award in the Forge Student startup contest. 
  * Spring 2017: Shirley is accepted to medical school at University of Toronto.  
  * Nov 2016: Dr. Keiichiro Kagawa from Shizuoka university is visiting our lab
  * May 2016: Jessica is awarded the [[https://www.mitacs.ca/en/programs/globalink|MITACS Global-Link Scholarship]] to spend 4-month in Soochow University 
  * Sept 2015: Eric won the inaugural Faculty of Engineering Dean's PhD excellences award
  * May 2015: Sharon is awarded the [[https://www.mitacs.ca/en/programs/globalink|MITACS Global-Link Scholarship]] to spend 4-month in Soochow University 
  * May 2015: Sharon and Eric are awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship 
  * May 2014: Anthony is awarded the Engineering Physics Graduate Student Award for “Outstanding Contributions to Research and Community” 
  * August 2014: Du won the McMaster International Excellence Award again. 
  * April 2014: Eric and Sharon are awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship