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  • Sep 8
    MERI Monthly Seminar Series – September

    September 8, 2026 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm 3571 WIMR Directions

  • Sep 2
    Application period opens for Fall 2026 David G. Walsh Travel Awards

    Staff and Trainee Opportunity

    September 2, 2026 (all day) Click here for Application and Guidelines page

  • Aug 28
    Application period opens for Grant Accelerator Program Awards

    Member Opportunity

    August 28, 2026 (all day) Click here for Application and Guidelines page

  • Aug 8
    Vision at the Arboretum

    August 8, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 1:30 pm Arboretum Visitor Center RSVP Here

    Join 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: The biology of vision in birds” by Prof. Freya Mowat, BVSc, PhD, DECVO, DACVO, MRCVS   After the talks: meet …

  • Jun 19
    Application deadline: Storyform Science Communication Course Opportunity

    Staff and Trainee Opportunity

    June 19, 2026 (all day) Click here for Application and Guidelines

  • Jun 18
    Vision Gallery Summer Exhibition Opening Reception

    June 18, 2026 @ 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm Mandelbaum and Albert Vision Gallery, 9th floor, WIMR II

    Please join us for our opening ice cream reception (with Babcock Dairy ice cream!) of Inside Out – Art of Medical Illustration. The exhibition will be on display from June 18th through September 30th, 2026. Location: Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research, 9th Floor, 1111 Highland Avenue 53705 Gallery Hours of Operation: Monday-Friday | 8:30 a.m. …

  • May 28
    14th Annual McPherson Lecture

    Lecturer: Prof. Aaron Lee Washington University, St. Louis

    May 28, 2026 @ 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm HSLC 1325 Event Page

    Our 14th Annual Alice R. McPherson Lecture will take place in HSLC 1325 at 4:00 pm on Thursday, May 28th, 2026! This year’s McPherson Lecturer is Dr. Aaron Y. Lee, MD, MSCI (Arthur W. Stickle Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, WashU, St. Louis), who will deliver the following …

  • May 12
    MERI Monthly Seminar Series – May

    Speaker: Karen Schloss, Associate ProfessorTalk title: Color semantics for visual cognition Speaker: Anna Chinni, Graduate Student Talk title: Color semantics in figure-grounded organizationRSVP Here

    May 12, 2026 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm 3571 WIMR II Directions

  • May 1
    Middle School Outreach Visit – Sherman Middle School

    Cow Eye Dissection Lesson

    May 1, 2026 (all day) Sherman Middle School Classroom of Geri Rault Sign Up

  • Apr 23
    Middle School Outreach Visit – Velma Bell Hamilton

    Cow Eye Dissection Lesson

    April 23, 2026 (all day) Velma Bell Hamilton Middle SchoolClassrooms of Justin Kruger and Katie Venturini Sign Up

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