Category: Research-2020

Skala lab collaborates on early warning system for preterm births

Schloss Lab Receives Grant to Understand Visual Reasoning

Karen Schloss, Assistant Professor in UW–Madison’s Department of Psychology, has received a grant for $558,702 from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program.  The award is for a project intended to advance the understanding of visual reasoning for visual communication. Visual reasoning enables people to translate visual input to abstract concepts. For example, …

Grant Summit Program Opportunity 2020

McPherson ERI members are invited to avail themselves of this funding opportunity – detailed guidelines and an application form are linked. The McPherson ERI Grant Summit Program seeks to increase support for UW–Madison vision research by facilitating successful resubmissions of federal grant applications. Grant Summit Program guidelines and the application form provide details.  Applications are …

Applications open for Spring 2020 Walsh Research Travel Awards

With funding from Cycle for Sight as well as from the David G. Walsh Research Fellowship Fund, two David G. Walsh Research Travel Awards will be awarded to support graduate students and/or postdoctoral researchers in Spring 2020. The application process is open to postdoctoral researchers and graduate students currently in training in any McPherson ERI …

Kenzi Valentyn Vision Research Grants 2020, applications open

The McPherson Eye Research Institute is pleased to announce its fourth annual research grant competition for trainees whose principal investigator mentors are McPherson ERI members at UW–Madison or at another Wisconsin institution (including UW-Milwaukee, UW-Oshkosh, Medical College of Wisconsin, Marquette University, and Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation).  Graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and medical or veterinary students …