{"id":1089,"date":"2026-03-08T12:17:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2026-03-08T12:17:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:17:26","slug":"congratulations-mitchell-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/congratulations-mitchell-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Mitchell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell Chalmers has submitted his PhD thesis for examination.\u00a0 His thesis entitled &#8220;Raman Spectroscopy for<br \/>\nBiomedical Applications<span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">&#8221; focuses on the use of Raman spectroscopy to investigate mineral growths in human tissue; such as those associated with breast cancer.\u00a0 His work has already been published in the following papers:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/jrs.70002\">Chalmers, M.; Gordon, Keith\u00a0C.; McCane, B.; Fraser-Miller, Sara\u00a0J. Probing the Stability of Convolution Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines With Transmission Low Wavenumber Raman Spectroscopic Data. <em>Journal of Raman Spectroscopy<\/em> <strong>2025<\/strong>, 56 (12), 1519\u20131528<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/27551857241302079\">Chalmers, M. C.; Tomberg, T.; Gordon, K. C.; Fraser-Miller, S. J. Discriminating Model Microcalcifications Immersed and Under Varying Depths of Wax Using Deep Low-Frequency Raman Spectroscopy. <em>Applied Spectroscopy Practica<\/em> <strong>2024<\/strong>, 2 (4), 1 \u2013 12<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are some photos of the bell ringing<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1095\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1095\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/03\/Mitchell1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1095\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/03\/Mitchell1-594x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/03\/Mitchell1-594x1024.jpeg 594w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/03\/Mitchell1-174x300.jpeg 174w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/03\/Mitchell1-768x1325.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/03\/Mitchell1-890x1536.jpeg 890w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/03\/Mitchell1.jpeg 1179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1095\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mitchell at the bell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1094\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1094\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/03\/Mitchell2-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1094\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/03\/Mitchell2-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/03\/Mitchell2-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/03\/Mitchell2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/03\/Mitchell2-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/03\/Mitchell2-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/03\/Mitchell2-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The group at the bell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1091\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1091\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/03\/Mitchell5-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1091\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/03\/Mitchell5-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/03\/Mitchell5-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/03\/Mitchell5-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/03\/Mitchell5-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/03\/Mitchell5-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/03\/Mitchell5-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A quiet celebration later on<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell Chalmers has submitted his PhD thesis for examination.\u00a0 His thesis entitled &#8220;Raman Spectroscopy for Biomedical Applications&#8221; focuses on the use of Raman spectroscopy to investigate mineral growths in human tissue; such as those associated with breast cancer.\u00a0 His work has already been published in the following papers: Chalmers, M.; Gordon, Keith\u00a0C.; McCane, B.; Fraser-Miller, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33170,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}