Below you’ll find a calendar of MERI events (left), as well as a calendar listing important dates regarding our Award Opportunities (right).
If you’d like a calendar invite for a given event, award release, or award deadline, just click on that event’s title. You’ll be taken to a page where you can click a ‘Download event’ button to receive the calendar invite. Once downloaded, just right click the invite file and select the calendar into which you’d like to import the invite (e.g., Microsoft outlook, icalendar, etc.)
If you’d like more details about the event or award opportunity, click the hypertext ‘Click here for…’ within that calendar entry.
For convenience, all award opportunity entries use color-coded text to indicate which of our membership are eligible to apply (e.g., trainees, UW faculty/permanent PIs, UW staff, non-UW faculty, etc.).
Upcoming Events
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Apr08
High School Outreach Visit - LaFollette Cow Eye Dissection Lesson LaFollette High School
Classroom of Madisyn Estkowski Sign UpIf you are interested in volunteering but have not attended a MERI Outreach Training session (or need a refresher), you can sign up for our February 5th training session here.
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Apr10
2026 UW Science Expeditions - Sign Up Here
Come explore UW-Madison – your public university – and experience science on April 10th – 12th. Interact with researchers, visit dozens of science venues across campus, enjoy Science Spectacular Shows, and try your hand at …
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Apr14
MERI Monthly Seminar Series - April Speaker: Zoe Howard, Research Intern
Talk title: Texture Semantics is Robust to Scaling
Speaker: Zeinab Shirbaghaei, Postdoctoral Researcher
Talk title: Choroidal Mast Cell Activation and Inflammatory Processes Mediating Outer Retinal Degeneration
Speaker: Neha Sriram, Graduate Student
Talk title: 3D motion processing in the brain
RSVP Here @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm 1360 Biotech
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Apr15
Middle School Outreach Visit - Spring Harbor Spring Harbor Middle School
Tally Kruger's Classroom Sign Up -
Apr23
Middle School Outreach Visit - Velma Bell Hamilton Cow Eye Dissection Lesson Velma Bell Hamilton Middle School
Classrooms of Justin Kruger and Katie Venturini Sign Up -
May01
Middle School Outreach Visit - Sherman Middle School Cow Eye Dissection Lesson Sherman Middle School Classroom of Geri Rault Sign Up
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May12
MERI Monthly Seminar Series - May Speaker: Karen Schloss, Associate Professor
Talk title: Color semantics for visual cognition
Speaker: Anna Chinni, Graduate Student
Talk title: Color semantics in figure-grounded organization
RSVP Here @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm 3571 WIMR II
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May28
14th Annual McPherson Lecture Lecturer: Prof. Aaron Lee
Washington University, St. Louis @ 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm HSLC 1345 Event PageOur 14th Annual Alice R. McPherson Lecture will take place in HSLC 1345 at 4:00pm on Thursday, May 28th, 2026! This year’s McPherson Lecturer is Dr. Aaron Y. Lee, MD, MSCI (Arthur W. Stickle Distinguished …
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Sep08
MERI Monthly Seminar Series - September @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm 3571 WIMR
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Sep11
Annual Sandra Lemke Trout Lecture SriniVas Sadda, MD, FARVO @ 7:00 am HSLC 1345, Hybrid Event Page
Before the lecture, there will be a catered reception at 6:30am in the HSLC Atrium.
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Oct13
MERI Monthly Seminar Series - October @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm 1360 Biotech
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Oct15
18th Annual Vision Science Symposium - Poster Session & Distinguished Lecture Ladan Shams, PhD @ 1:30 pm HSLC Atrium (Poster Session) & HSLC 1345 (Lecture)
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Oct23
Seminar - Anand Swaroop, PhD Dr. Anand Swaroop @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 https://www.waisman.wisc.edu/event/seminar-mar6-swaroop/
About the Speaker: Dr. Anand Swaroop obtained his M.Sc. in Biochemistry from the G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore–both in India. After completing …
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Nov10
MERI Monthly Seminar Series - November Special Seminar: Three 15-minute research talks by our Kenzi Valentyn Award Recipients
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm 3571 WIMR II
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Nov12
Annual Daniel M. Albert Lecture Speaker: David Huang, MD, PhD
Director of Research, Casey Eye Institute; World Family Endowed Chair in Ophthalmic Imaging; Professor of Ophthalmology and Biomedical Engineering, Oregon Health & Science University @ 4:00 pm HSLC 1345 Event PageReception in the HSLC Atrium, 3-4 pm Talk Title: TBA Abstract: TBA
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Dec08
MERI Monthly Seminar Series - December @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm 1360 Biotech
Directions https://vision.wisc.edu/current-seminar-series/
Award Opportunities
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Apr06
Application period opens for Storyform Science Communication Course Opportunity Staff and Trainee Opportunity Click here for Application and Guidelines
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Jun19
Application deadline: Storyform Science Communication Course Opportunity Staff and Trainee Opportunity Click here for Application and Guidelines
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Aug28
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Sep02
Application period opens for Fall 2026 Walsh Travel Awards Staff and Trainee Opportunity Click here for Application and Guidelines page
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Sep09
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Oct08
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Oct12
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Oct23
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Nov13
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Nov20
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Nov30
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Dec18
Application period opens for Spring Walsh Travel Awards Staff and Trainee Opportunity Click here for Application and Guidelines page
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Feb26
Application Deadline - Walsh Graduate Student Support Initiative (Member/Trainee Opportunity) Opportunity for UW Faculty, although award is used to directly support their graduate student @ 11:59 pm Walsh GSSI Application and Guidelines webpage
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Apr09
Application period opens for Storyform Science Communication Course Opportunity Staff and Trainee Opportunity Click here for Application and Guidelines
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Jun18
Application deadline: Storyform Science Communication Course Opportunity Staff and Trainee Opportunity Click here for Application and Guidelines