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A small exhibit on the first floor of Memorial Library honors the bicentenary of the birth of Louis Braille, born in 1809 in Coupvray, near Paris, France, and died in 1852 in Paris. The system of printing and writing Louis Braille developed while still in his teens now bears his name and enjoys wide use. …

Daniel Uhlrich, PhD, of the Department of Anatomy has been named Chair of the SMPH Animal Care and Use Committee (ACUC). This committee is responsible for oversight and evaluation of the School’s animal care and use program, procedures, and facilities to ensure that they are consistent with recommendations of the NIH Guide for the Care …

Erik Weihenmayer, a blind mountain climber, will describe his experiences with BrainPort at the NEI 40th anniversary kickoff. The event will feature a screening of Blindsight, an award-winning documentary chronicling Weihenmayer’s mountain-climbing journey up the north face of Mount Everest with six blind Tibetan teenagers. Researchers will also debut the third-generation BrainPort device, produced by …

Margaret McFall-Ngai, Professor in the Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, has been awarded a 2009 Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. During her Guggenheim term, Dr. McFall-Ngai will study the role of symbiosis in shaping evolutionary selection, specifically on the form and function of the animal immune system. The traditional view of …

The Eye Research Institute has awarded grants to the following five projects in 2009: An in vitro model of eye movements and choice Principal Investigator, Michele A. Basso (Physiology; Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences) Collaborator: Meyer B. Jackson (Physiology) Use of vitamin D3 analogues for the treatment of neovascular AMD Principal Investigator, Ronald P. Danis(Ophthalmology & …

The developing program in Visual Culture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, like that of the UW Eye Research Institute, is committed to fostering research collaborations and dialogue that connect the analysis and practice of the visual across the humanities, arts, social sciences, and sciences. This conference on “Perception” represents a fundamental part of our initiative …

Dr. David Gamm, who is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and member of the UW Eye Research Institute, has been awarded a 5-year grant for the project “Customized iPS Cell Therapy for Recessive Monogenetic Retinal Degenerative Diseases.” Stem cells can be produced from a patient’s skin cells (known as induced pluripotent stem …

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 …

Precyous Banks is spending a portion of her summer learning about research first-hand. RAP is a seven-week pre-college academic program designed to introduce high school students to scientific research and to the University. Banks, who is also a member of PEOPLE (Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence), is applying to UW–Madison this year and …