Events
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Jan 15Application Deadline – Karl H. Beyer, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow Eye Research Award Fund
Trainee Opportunity
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Jan 29Application Deadline – Visiting Scholar Awards
Member Opportunity
Click here for Application and Guidelines
Funded by the McPherson Eye Research Institute’s Cycle for Sight event, the Visiting Scholar Award Opportunity provides support for a McPherson ERI Member to host a Visiting Scholar for 3-7 days at their institution. These visits are intended to facilitate lasting collaborations and/or training in support of broadly vision-related research, including bioengineering, technology development, imaging, …
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Feb 5Application Deadline – Spring 2027 David G. Walsh Travel Awards
Staff and Trainee Opportunity
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Feb 14Application Deadline – Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowships
Trainee Opportunity
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Feb 21Application Deadline – Sophomore Research Fellowships
Trainee Opportunity
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Feb 26Annual MERI-at-a-Glance event
MERI-at-a-Glance is an annual pizza luncheon that gives our members, their graduate students/trainees, and lab associates the opportunity to hear brief research talks (~10 minutes in length) from other McPherson ERI members. These talks span widely different areas of vision-related research and showcase the most current work of our membership.
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Feb 26Application Deadline – Walsh Graduate Student Support Initiative (Member/Trainee Opportunity)
Opportunity for UW Faculty, although award is used to directly support their graduate student
Walsh GSSI Application and Guidelines webpage
The Walsh Graduate Student Support Initiative (GSSI) provides $12,000 of support to a UW–Madison graduate student training in a McPherson ERI Member’s laboratory. Although this award supports graduate students, it is the PI who completes and submits the application. The application period for this award typically begins in late December or early January, with a …
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Mar 13
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Apr 9Application period opens for Storyform Science Communication Course Opportunity
Staff and Trainee Opportunity
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May 2015th Annual Alice R. McPherson Lecture
Prof. Bart Leroy, MD, PhD
HSLC 1325 Event Page
Our 15th Annual Alice R. McPherson Lecture will take place in HSLC 1325 at 4:00 pm on Thursday, May 20th, 2027! This year’s lecturer is Prof. Bart Leroy, MD, PhD (Professor of Ophthalmology, Ghent University), who will deliver the following lecture: “Title TBA” Abstract: Pending Prior to the lecture, there will be a catered reception from 3:00 …