Month: August 2021

Pattnaik receives two awards from UW Graduate School, and the 2021 Odell Award from Pediatrics

Bassam Shakhashiri, PhD, retires from UW-Madison, as reported by UW News and the Wisconsin State Journal

Expanding Our Vision 2021 Award Recipient Announced

Congratulations to McPherson ERI member Dr. Yuhang Zhao (Dept. of Computer Science), who will be collaborating with Dr. Bilge Mutlu  (Dept. of Computer Science) and Dr. Sanbrita Mondal (Dept. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences), here at UW–Madison. Their project, Designing Augmented Reality Systems to Facilitate Safe Cooking for People with Low Vision, will utilize augmented …

The Fundus Photograph Reading Center renamed The Wisconsin Reading Center

The Fundus Photograph Reading Center renamed The Wisconsin Reading Center The Fundus Photograph Reading Center, which was initially established by Dr. Matthew Davis in 1970 to independently analyze–or “read”–photographs from participants in the first clinical trials of diabetic retinopathy, has a new name–the Wisconsin Reading Center. The Wisconsin Reading Center analyzes retinal images in an …