Month: September 2008

In recognition of Daniel Albert’s service as past Chair of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, his outstanding research and teaching career and his current Directorship of the Eye Research Institute, Dean Robert Golden has established the Daniel M. Albert Chair at the University of Wisconsin. The Albert Chair will be awarded to a faculty member for …

Dr. Ivan Schwab, Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science University of California, Davis Evolution’s Witness: A Story of the Evolution of the Eye Thursday, October 2, 2008, Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Building With light and predation as catalysts, the first eye appeared during the Cambrian era, 550 million years ago, in a trilobite. The …