Vanderbilt Vision Research Center

Congratulations to Isabel Gauthier and Steven Hollon!

They won significant awards at the December College Faculty Meeting on December 4, 2012. Isabel Gauthier won the Graduate Mentoring Award and Steve Hollon won the Graduate Teaching Award. Congratulations to Isabel and Steve on these well deserved honors!

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Brain study provides new insight into why haste makes waste Brain study provides new insight into why haste makes waste. A new study demonstrates how the brain follows Ben Franklin’s famous dictum, “Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.”

Leanne Boucher, Ph.D. represented the faculty at the annual Convocation in welcoming students and introducing this year’s academic theme of “Life and Death.”

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Vanderbilt Vision Research Centers News

Who's ready to attend the The Vanderbilt Eye Institute
2012 Symposium "Regenerative Medicine in Glaucoma"!?! It's coming soon, September 20-21, 2012!

https://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/medschool/regenerativemedicine2012/

Regenerative Medicine in Glaucoma

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Thursday, Sept. 13th
Michele Cox - Neuronal responses to subjective surfaces in visual area V4

Vanderbilt Vision Training Seminar - Friday, Sept. 14th

Rebecca Sappington
Assistant Professor
Vanderbilt Eye Institute

“The Storyboard Method for Research Strategy and Management”

Cognition & Cognitive Seminar Series - Friday, Sept. 7th

Paul Dux, Ph.D.
2012 Randolph Blake Early Career Award Winner

Investigations into Implicit Theory of Mind.

Vision Research Guest Speaker - Today 4:10, 1220 MRBIII
Jessica K. Witt, Ph.D.
Colorado State University

Seeing into the future: How anticipated action influences spatial perception

Neuroscience Seminar Series - Thursday, Aug. 30th
Doug Godwin - Overlapping Neural Correlates of Awareness and Attention with fMRI

Congratulations to David J. Calkins!

The Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences is pleased to announce that David Calkins now holds the Denis M. O’Day Chair in Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences.

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VU research team’s vision study yields eye-opening results

VU research teams vision study yields eye-opening results (05/10/12) The pulvinar, a mysterious structure buried in the center of our brains, determines how we see the world and whether we see at all.