It is our pleasure to announce the recipients of our 2023 David G. Walsh Graduate Student Support Initiative (GSSI) Award! Made possible by the David G. Walsh Research Fellowship Endowment Fund, GSSI provides McPherson ERI members 1-year grants of $12,000 to support the work of a graduate student. This year’s award recipients are Professor Gillian McLellan (Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences; Surgical Sciences) and Professor Ari Rosenberg (Neuroscience). Prof. McLellan’s GSSI award will support graduate student Virginia Mathu’s work on her thesis project Disease Mechanisms at the Intersection of Glaucoma and Alzheimer’s Disease, while Prof. Rosenberg’s GSSI award will support graduate student Zikang ‘John’ Zhu’s work on his thesis project Causal contributions of parieto-occipital cortex to 3D visual perception.