Hoover:
Could you please post this announcement about our graduate program in
vision science on cvnet?
Thanks,
Jerry Feldman
Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Research
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GRADUATE PROGRAM IN VISION SCIENCE
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY
The Graduate Program in Vision Science at the SUNY College of Optometry
offers training in a variety of areas of vision science ranging from
molecular biology to cognitive visual information processing. The
program is designed for individuals holding a professional degree in a
health science or a bachelor's degree. Students in the graduate program
generally work towards a Ph.D. degree in Vision Science.
Applicants may apply for the tThe full-time graduate student doctoral
program or a combined O.D./Ph.D. Optometrist Scientist Program.
Postgraduate opportunities are also available for students already
holding a health professional degree, such as the O.D. These applicants
may be eligible to receive both a graduate assistantship stipend and a
part-time faculty appointment as a Clinical Instructor at the University
Optometric Center.
Research facilities include numerous teaching and research laboratories,
the Harold Kohn Vision Science Library, the University Optometric Center
(over 120,000 patient care visits per year), the Schnurmacher Institute
for Vision Research, and others.
Vision Science Faculty include:
Julie R. Brannan - Parallel processing, reading disability,
psychophysics.
Kenneth Ciuffreda - clinical aspects of eye movements and
accommodation, amblyopia, human visual system plasticity.
Jerome Feldman - learning and vision.
Siret Jaanus - ocular autonomic function, effects of diagnostic and
therapeutic pharmaceutical agents.
Milton Katz - optical design, image evaluation, visual optical systems.
Philip Kruger - stimuli to accommodation and emmetropization, optics of
the eye.
John J. Picarelli - neuropeptides and lacrimal and ocular function.
Jordan Pola - eye movements, oculomotor neurophysiology.
Jerry Rapp - deposition of tear film components and contact
lenses.
Peter Reinach -cell signaling mechanisms responsible for control by
growth factors of corneal epithelialization and differentation.
Mark Rosenfield - myopia and near vision, actions of ocular
accommodation and vergence, refractive error development.
Robert Sack - tear film, ocular inflammation and immunology.
Harold Sedgwick - visual space perception, eye movement
control systems, motion perception.
Harold Solan - transient and sustained visual processing,
dyslexia/learning disabilities, perceptual/sensory processing.
Harry J. Wyatt - control of eye movements, pupil and iris,
accommodation.
Dean Yager - clinical psychophysics, reading and low vision, disability
glare, spatial vision.
Qasim Zaidi - mathematical and psychophysical and experiments
concerning fundamental issues in color and motion perception.
*** Applicantion deadline for Fall 1997. ***
Admissions are rollingand applicants are encouraged to apply early.
For information and application material, contact:
Ms. Debra Berger, Program Coordinator
phone: (212) 780-5140, fax (212) 780-5009, email: berger@sunyopt.edu
address:
Graduate Program in Vision Science
SUNY State College of Optometry
100 East 24th Street
New York, NY 10010