Each year one student is selected by a panel of 3 alumni reviewers as the winner of the Graduate Student Research Award.   The winner is provided with a stipend to travel to the annual AAPM conference to present their research and receive their award at the WSU Alumni Gathering.  The travel stipend is funded entirely by generous alumni donations.  If you would like to volunteer to be an alumni judge for the award, please contact us!   

Graduate Student Research Awardee

Luke Layman
2024 Winner

Title of Research Project: - "Exploring a Hybrid Workflow on Ethos Adaptive Radiotherapy”

Avery Peterson
2023 Winner

Title of Research Project: - Bone Marrow Dosimetry in Radioligand Therapy using AI-Enabled Whole Body Spongiosa Segmentation and Complementary Marrow/Lesion Maps from 99mTc-Sulfur Colloid SPECT/CT and [68Ga]Ga-PSMA-11 PET/CT

Andrea Bisutti
2022 Winner

Title of Research Project: - Variability of Inter-Fraction Target Motion During Hypofractionated Lung Radiation Therapy

Eric Carver
2021 Winner

Title of Research Project: - Multi-Institutional Data Analysis of Radiomic Signature Set to Predict Overall Survival in Glioblastoma Patients

Eric Morris
2019 Winner

Title of Research Project: Cardiac Substructure Segmentation with Deep Learning for Improved Cardiac Sparing.

 

Eric Morris
2018 Winner

Title of Research Project: Cardiac Substructure Segmentation and Dosimetry Using a Novel Hybrid MR/CT Cardiac Atlas.

 

Rebecca Meerschaert
2017 Winner

Title of Research Project: Investigation of Cervical Cancer Recurrence Indicators Based on Multi-modality Image Information.

 

Rebecca Meerschaert
2016 Winner

Title of Research Project: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Adaptive Daily Planning for Cervical Cancer HDR Brachytherapy

 

Viatcheslav Zakjevskii
2014 Winner

Title of Research Project: Development of an End-to-End Test for the Varian TrueBeam with a Novel Multiple-Dosimetric Modality H&N Phantom

 

Yashwanth Katkuri
2013 Winner

Title of Research Project: Reducing the Background Field Variations in MRI Using Geometry Information

 

 AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

• 2024 Meghana Ramani – 3^rd Place, National AAPM MedPhys Slam Competition
• 2024 Doris Rusu – 1^st Place, GLC-AAPM MedPhys Slam
• 2024 Doris Rusu – 2^nd Place, GLC-AAPM Young Investigators Symposium
• 2023 Kellen Fitzpatrick – Arthur M. Weis, PhD, Award in Radiation Dosimetry and Safety, Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging
• 2023 Avery Peterson - Bone Marrow Dosimetry in Radioligand Therapy using AI-Enabled Whole Body Spongiosa Segmentation and Complementary Marrow/Lesion Maps from 99mTc-Sulfur Colloid SPECT/CT and [68Ga]Ga-PSMA-11 PET/CT
• 2023 Avery Peterson – Center for Molecular Imaging Innovation and Translation Young Investigator Symposium, Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging
• 2023 Andrea Bisutti – 1^st Place, GLC-AAPM MedPhys Slam
• 2023 Doris Rusu – 2^nd Place, GLC-AAPM MedPhys Slam
• 2023 Avery Peterson – WSU Medical Physics Program Graduate Student Research Award
• 2022 Andrea Bisutti - Variability of Inter-Fraction Target Motion During Hypofractionated Lung Radiation Therapy
• 2022 Andrea Bisutti – WSU Medical Physics Program Graduate Student Research Award
• 2021Eric Carver - Multi-Institutional Data Analysis of Radiomic Signature Set to Predict Overall Survival in Glioblastoma Patients
• 2021 Eric Carver – WSU Medical Physics Program Graduate Student Research Award
• 2020 Eric Morris- AAPM Best in Physics Oral Presentation
• 2020 Eric Morris- Henry Ford Cancer Institute Outstanding Clinical Manuscript of the Year
• 2020 Eric Carver- 2nd place,GLC-AAPM Young Investigator's Symposium
• 2020 Eric Morris- 3rd place, GLC-AAPM Young Investigator's Symposium
• 2019 Eric Morris - Winner, GLC-AAPM Med Phys Slam Competition
• 2019 Eric Morris - 2018 Award Best Medical Physics, Article in the Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics
• 2019 Eric Morris, 3^rd place, AAPM John R. Cameron Young Investigator Competition
• 2019 Eric Morris - Winner, GLC-AAPM Young Investigator's Symposium
• 2019 Shupeng Chen - Runner-Up, GLC-AAPM Young Investigator's Symposium
• 2019 Dr. An Qin - Runner-Up, GLC-AAPM Young Investigator's Symposium
• 2019 Eric Morris- 2nd place, WSU SOM Graduate research Orla Presentation Competition
• 2018 Eric Morris - Second place, National AAPM Med Phys Slam Competition
• 2018 Eric Morris - AAPM Expanding Horizons Travel Grant Recipient 
• 2018 Eric Morris - Winner, GLC-AAPM Med Phys Slam Competition
• 2018 Eric Morris Winner, GLC-AAPM Young Investigator's Symposium
• 2017 Eric Morris Runner-Up, GLC-AAPM Young Investigator's Symposium
• 2016 Ryan Price Runner-Up, GLC-AAPM Young Investigator's Symposium
• 2015 John Barrett Winner, GLC-AAPM Young Investigator's Symposium
• 2012 Cory Knill Winner, GLC-AAPM Young Investigator's Symposium
• 2010 Mark Tucker Finalist, AAPM Young Investigator's Symposium
• 2009 Justus Adamson WSU SOM Graduate Student Research Award
• 2008 Danielle Worthy WSU SOM Academic Excellence Award
• 2008 Bo Zhao Second place, GLC-AAPM Young Investigator's Symposium
• 2007 Shalini Pandya WSU SOM Academic Excellence Award
• 2007 Anthony Doemer Third place, GLC-AAPM Young Investigator's Symposium
• 2007 Carri Glide First place (tie), GLC-AAPM Young Investigator's Symposium
• 2007 Carri Glide Reviewer's Choice Award, Annual Meeting of the AAPM
• 2007 Yimei Huang Finalist, AAPM Young Investigator's Symposium
• 2006 Carri Glide WSU SOM Research Excellence Award
• 2006 Carri Glide Third place, WSU SOM Graduate Student Research Day
• 2006 Yimei Huang WSU SOM Academic Excellence Award
• 2006 Charles Dodge Finalist, AAPM Young Investigator's Symposium
• 2006 Carri Glide Second place, AAPM Young Investigator's Symposium
• 2005 Nagaraju Mogili First place, GLC-AAPM Young Investigator's Symposium