As spring continues to tease us with cold and rain we all could use some good news to cheer us up, well it seems we've been storing it up recently, there are several exciting achievements to highlight:

• Laura McCrackin has been awarded the Ontario Graduate Fellowship, a very competitive program to fund a year of her PhD thesis work!
• Benyamin Ghojogh got in not one, not two, but three papers into the upcoming International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR) which will be hosted this year on campus at Waterloo.
• Juan Manual Carillo was part of the winning team of the ESRI Canada App Challenge with their aptly named SpectaculAR app which demonstrated how to merge augmented reality and GIS technologies to increase access to urban sustainability information.

Congratulations to everyone, good work!