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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Aug08
Vision at the Arboretum @ 10:00 am - 1:30 pm
Arboretum Visitor Center RSVP HereJoin us for a family-friendly educational event on the vision of birds! “SOS (Songbird Ocular Syndrome): A Tale of Cicadas, Songbirds, and Vitamin A Deficiency” by Valerie Shearn-Bochsler, MPH, DVM, DACVP “Eyes in the sky: …
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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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Sep22
MERI Outreach Training Session @ 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm WIMR/HSLC MERI Outreach page
This event will train Outreach volunteers on how to present our current Exploration Station kits and guided cow eye dissection lesson. Volunteers are welcome to attend as many lessons as they would like. Start and …
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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 @ 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm HSLC Atrium
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Oct15
18th Annual Vision Science Symposium - Distinguished Lecture Bevil Conway, PhD @ 5:30 pm HSLC 1325
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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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Aug28
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Sep02
Application period opens for Fall 2026 David G. 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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Nov01
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Nov01
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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 2026 David G. Walsh Travel Awards Staff and Trainee Opportunity Click here for Application and Guidelines page
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Jan08
Application period opens for Walsh Graduate Student Support Initiative Opportunity for UW Faculty, although award is used to directly support their graduate student Walsh GSSI Application and Guidelines webpage
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Jan15
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Jan15
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Jan29
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Feb05
Application Deadline – Spring 2027 David G. Walsh Travel Awards Staff and Trainee Opportunity @ 11:59 pm Walsh Travel Award Application and Guidelines webpage
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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