UW News profiles the Velten Lab’s video-around-corners project

13th Annual Vision Science Symposium (Fall Trainee Symposium) (2021)

Fall Trainee Symposium Thursday, November 4th, 2021; Zoom Introduction from David Gamm and Adam Steinberg Guest Speakers:

Shawn Green’s lab shows that action game play leads to quicker learners

Ahna Skop among judges for 2021 Cool Science Images Contest

Finding Clarity: Fellowship supports Ben Sajdak’s career path

For some people, career paths are well-defined tracks laid out early on. But for Ben Sajdak, who completed his Morgridge Postdoctoral Fellowship in September, a career path wasn’t initially apparent. However, two important “ah-ha” moments eventually brought a trajectory into focus. This month, Sajdak completed his three-year-long fellowship and joined Fauna Bio Inc. as the Director of Emerging Animal …

Fall 2021 Seminar Series

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 , 2021 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2021 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2021 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2021

Pattnaik receives two awards from UW Graduate School, and the 2021 Odell Award from Pediatrics

Bassam Shakhashiri, PhD, retires from UW-Madison, as reported by UW News and the Wisconsin State Journal

Expanding Our Vision 2021 Award Recipient Announced

Congratulations to McPherson ERI member Dr. Yuhang Zhao (Dept. of Computer Science), who will be collaborating with Dr. Bilge Mutlu  (Dept. of Computer Science) and Dr. Sanbrita Mondal (Dept. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences), here at UW–Madison. Their project, Designing Augmented Reality Systems to Facilitate Safe Cooking for People with Low Vision, will utilize augmented …

The Fundus Photograph Reading Center renamed The Wisconsin Reading Center

The Fundus Photograph Reading Center renamed The Wisconsin Reading Center The Fundus Photograph Reading Center, which was initially established by Dr. Matthew Davis in 1970 to independently analyze–or “read”–photographs from participants in the first clinical trials of diabetic retinopathy, has a new name–the Wisconsin Reading Center. The Wisconsin Reading Center analyzes retinal images in an …