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BLI Researcher Awarded Prestigious ARCS Fellowship

Jessie Weber, a Ph.D. candidate in Biomedical Engineering currently doing research at BLI, was awarded a 2006-2008 fellowship from the UCI Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) program. This particular fellowship program is one of UCI's most distinguished. Fellows for this program are selected on the basis of their academic accomplishments and promise as well as their leadership qualities consistent with the mission of the ARCS Foundation: representing the future leaders of tomorrow's American scientific community.

Before coming to UCI, Jessie earned her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Rochester (NY) where she studied a broad range of subjects from Geometrical Optics to Interference and Diffraction, Fluid Dynamics to Mechanics, and Modern Physics to Neurobiology. Her current research at BLI involves looking at a model of seizure in the brain. She is using light to map functional physiological dynamics and to study the origin of the optical scattering and absorption signals.