News & Stories

NEW YORK, June 21, 2019 — SUNY Optometry clinical professor Dr. Murray Fingeret was inducted into the National Optometry Hall of Fame during Optometry’s Meeting in St. Louis on Thursday, June 20. The honor highlights luminaries who have made a significant and long-lasting impact on the profession. Throughout his career, Dr. Fingeret has reinforced standards […]

June 19, 2019

An Eye on Alumni: Dr. Diane Russo ’10

The 2010 alumna is the 2019 Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry Rising Star. For Dr. Diane Russo ’10, deciding to work as an optometrist was as simple as going along with the inevitable. “Health care and education run in my family. My mother is a nurse and my father is an optician and […]

June 18, 2019

2019 Dean Yager Award Recipients

NEW YORK, June 18, 2019 — The Dean Yager Award recognizes SUNY Optometry MS and PhD students and postdoctoral fellows for outstanding research papers published or accepted for publication by peer-reviewed journals. The 2019 recipients are: Dr. Reece Mazade, postdoctoral fellow Functional specialization of ON & Off cortical pathways for global-slow and local-fast vision, Cell […]

June 17, 2019

SUNY Optometry Researchers: Bright lights outdoors may help treat ‘lazy eye’ in children

NEW YORK, June 17, 2019 — The maturation of visual acuity in both amblyopia and myopia may be closely associated with the development of pathways signaling bright features in the brain, according to research published in the Journal of Neuroscience by SUNY College of Optometry doctoral candidate Carmen Pons Torres and colleagues in the laboratory […]

June 14, 2019

Dr. Shiri Azenkot Visits SUNY Optometry’s Schnurmacher Institute for Vision Research

NEW YORK — Dr. Shiri Azenkot, assistant professor of information science at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell University, presented on augmented reality to support people with low vision in daily tasks during SUNY Optometry’s Schnurmacher Institute for Vision Research colloquium on Friday, June 14. Dr. Shiri Azenkot is developing technology for existing smartphones that would assist blind people and those suffering […]

June 13, 2019

An Eye on Alumni: Dr. Rae Huang ’13

From flexibility to professional fulfilment, she says the benefits of working for herself in private practice make it a no brainer. There is literally not a single day that Dr. Rae Huang ’13 can recall that she didn’t want to be an optometrist. “I’ve always been interested in eyes, and I’ve wanted to be an […]

June 12, 2019

Familiar Faces @ SUNY Optometry: Anita Barrington-King

The optometric technician is approaching three decades at the University Eye Center. To hear Anita Barrington-King tell it, she is the definition of no nonsense: She comes into the office, she has a list of what to do and she gets it done. To hear anyone else tell it—and plenty could, as Mrs. Barrington-King has […]

June 12, 2019

SUNY Optometry to Host Greek Fulbright Visiting Scholar Dr. Dimitra Makrynioti

The contact lens specialist sees her time in the College’s myopia lab as both a personal and transnational mission. No one would argue that Dr. Dimitra Makrynioti’s life in Patras, Greece, is unexciting. A lecturer and researcher at the Technological Educational Institution (TEI), her many activities include tango, cycling, photography, Greek folk dancing and volunteer […]

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