Year: 2020

The McPherson ERI Visiting Scholar Program (VSP) provides a unique opportunity for McPherson ERI members to invite researchers from other institutions to visit UW–Madison for up to a week. Such immersive experiences facilitate in-depth interactions and exchanges of ideas, which in turn seed or solidify collaborations. For the second consecutive year, owing to the continued success …

Karen Schloss, Assistant Professor in UW–Madison’s Department of Psychology, has received a grant for $558,702 from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program.  The award is for a project intended to advance the understanding of visual reasoning for visual communication. Visual reasoning enables people to translate visual input to abstract concepts. For example, …

McPherson ERI members are invited to avail themselves of this funding opportunity – detailed guidelines and an application form are linked. The McPherson ERI Grant Summit Program seeks to increase support for UW–Madison vision research by facilitating successful resubmissions of federal grant applications. Grant Summit Program guidelines and the application form provide details.  Applications are …

With funding from Cycle for Sight as well as from the David G. Walsh Research Fellowship Fund, two David G. Walsh Research Travel Awards will be awarded to support graduate students and/or postdoctoral researchers in Spring 2020. The application process is open to postdoctoral researchers and graduate students currently in training in any McPherson ERI …

The McPherson Eye Research Institute is pleased to announce its fourth annual research grant competition for trainees whose principal investigator mentors are McPherson ERI members at UW–Madison or at another Wisconsin institution (including UW-Milwaukee, UW-Oshkosh, Medical College of Wisconsin, Marquette University, and Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation).  Graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and medical or veterinary students …