Join Zoo staff and ERI members Dick Dubielzig, DVM and Ellison Bentley, DVM for a program called
Vision at the Zoo: A Bird's Eye View. Adults and accompanied children are invited to meet an owl, penguin,
and macaw and learn about their eyes.
Sunday May 23, 2010
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
at the Visitor Center, Henry Vilas Zoo
Advance registration is required and opens March 1st.
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Outstanding graduate student and postdoctoral trainee poster and art work presentations were recognized with awards at the October 8th Vision Science & Visual Art Poster/Gallery Session. Award recipients were as follows:
*Best Student Contribution, Vision Science & Visual Art
Greg Cipriano, Computer Sciences
title: Molecular Surface Abstraction
poster authors: Greg Cipriano, George N. Philips, Jr. and Michael Gleicher
*Honorable Mention
Xuefeng Zeng, Electrical & Computer Engineering
title: An Endoscope Utilizing Tunable-Focus Microlenses Actuated Through Infrared Light
poster authors: Xuefeng Zeng and Hongrui Jiang
*Honorable Mention
Feng Liu and Yuzhen Niu, Computer Sciences
title: Exploring Perceptual Plausibility for Vision and Graphics Applications
poster authors: Feng Liu, Yuzhen Niu, Michael Gleicher, Hailin Jin, Aseem Agarwala
Award Sponsors: We thank Nikon Instruments, Inc. for generously sponsoring the ERI Poster/Gallery Session with donation of a Nikon Coolpix L19 8mp digital camera. We thank the University Book Store for generously providing UBS gift certificates.
Professor Stephen Palmer, Department of Psychology, UC-Berkeley, will present a talk on "Aesthetics in Vision Science: Understanding Preferences for Color." Palmer's lecture, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm. will be in Room 1335 of the Health Sciences Learning Center (at the west end of the Atrium) following the ERI Vision Science & Visual Art Poster and Gallery Session. Palmer's interests are in perceptual organization in vision, contextual effects on local cognitive processing, the aesthetics of color and spatial arrangement, and the nature and order of visual processing.Read more about Dr. Palmer here
On Thursday, October 8, 2009 from 4:00pm to 5:30pm, Eye Research Institute and Visual Culture Center members and associated scientists, researchers, postdocs, graduate students and advanced undergraduates with wide-ranging interests in vision will gather to showcase both scientific research and artistic works. The poster/gallery session will be held in the Atrium of the Health Sciences Learning Center, at 750 Highland Avenue. Read More and register here
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the second Eye Research Institute Rapid Response Initiative grant awards! This program is designed to support UW vision scholars who have a pressing need for immediate funding to pursue a critical piece of research within a short timeframe, to accelerate work in an area with great competition for a "first" discovery, or to jump-start work on an innovative project that may be funded in a future federal grant cycle. The five projects selected for support establish new collaborations, bringing scientists together from different disciplines and perspectives to study retinal and related vision diseases. Investigators, collaborators, and project descriptions follow. Read More Here
ERI Director Daniel Albert, MD, MS interview to air on BBC on August 20th, 3 pm local time. Read More Here
ERI member Daniel Uhlrich named Chair of the School of Medicine and Public Health's Animal Care and Use Committee.Read More Here
Eye Research Institute Daniel M. Albert, MD, MS provides the impetus for a Special Collections Exhibit on Louis Braille at the UW Memorial Library.Read More Here