Jacqueline Thiesse,
a native of Crystal Lake, Ill., and a student in
the College of Engineering, has been named the 2003-04
Student Employee of the Year for her work as a lab
assistant with the Department of Internal Medicine
in the UI Carver College of Medicine.
The UI Office of Student Financial Aid and the
National Student Employment Administrators Association
sponsor
the annual recognition of student workers. Of about
11,000 enrolled students employed on campus, 68 were
nominated for the award.
Geoffrey McLennan, the professor of internal medicine
who nominated Thiesse, indicated that through Thiesse’s
extraordinary initiative, a unique microscope attachment
named the Bright Field Segmentation Tomography was
developed. This attachment, which enables researchers
to illuminate and analyze material structure on a surface,
has significant applications for laboratory research
and is being reviewed as a potential patent application.
by Stephen Pradarelli
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