University of Michigan: prize awarded for virtual pathology in life sciences teaching

From the University of Michigan new service: Inaugural group receives teaching innovation prizes.  Among the prizes was one awarded to Dr. Lloyd Stoolman, professor of pathology, Medical School; and Matthew Velkey, lecturer in cell and developmental biology, Medical School for "virtual pathology in life sciences":

Revolutionary as light microscopes were for medicine, this means of studying diseased organs and tissues does not scale easily.  Assembling, maintaining, and updating sets of glass slides for instructing and testing large cohorts of medical students devoured faculty time, without guaranteeing that students and instructors would actually see the same features, given variation in tissue slices and students' microscope skills.

The project's overriding goal was to preserve the highly interactive laboratory experience by generating high-resolution digital replicas of the best tissue sections, compiling online image repositories, and deploying user-friendly, computer-based “viewers” that recapitulated the operation of a microscope. This combination of technologies retained the cognitively engaging aspects of light microscopy while overcoming the limitations imposed by traditional laboratories.

I have to say we're proud of Dr. Stoolman and his team; as early adopters of Aperio's technology they've adapted it beautifully to improve life sciences teaching at their University.  Congratulations!