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SUNY Optometry’s Graduate Center for Vision Research hosted its Research Open House Tuesday, October 30. The annual event introduces first-year OD students to the College’s research faculty and other current students with interests in translational or patient-based research. This year’s speakers included Dr. Kevin Willeford, who will be a three-time alumnus of the College upon […]

November 1, 2018

Flashback: Dining in the Dark for World Sight Day

SUNY Optometry’s student chapter of the American Public Health Association presented its second Dining in the Dark Experience in honor of World Sight Day on Thursday, October 18. The annual event raises awareness of low vision and preventable blindness by serving dinner in dim illumination with blindfolds to enhance attendees other senses and reveal what […]

October 29, 2018

SUNY Optometry’s Samuel Stack Receives 2018 Johnson & Johnson Vision J. Pat Cummings Scholarship

ORLANDO, FL, October 29, 2018 – SUNY Optometry third-year student Samuel L. Stack is a recipient of the 2018 J. Pat Cummings Scholarship from Johnson & Johnson Vision in collaboration with the American Academy of Optometry Foundation. The award recognizes a second- or third-year optometry student who demonstrates the ideal eye care standards of practice, […]

October 24, 2018

SUNY Optometry’s Dr. Alexandra Benavente-Perez Receives 2019 Career Development Award from the American Academy of Optometry

ORLANDO, FL, October 24, 2018 – SUNY Optometry associate clinical professor Dr. Alexandra Benavente-Perez has received the 2019 Career Development Award from the American Academy of Optometry. The Academy will provide a maximum of $50,000 in direct costs per year for up to two years, potentially renewable once for a total of up to four […]

October 22, 2018

SUNY Optometry’s 2018 Alumnus of the Year: Dr. Joseph Boorady

NEW YORK, October 22, 2018 — The SUNY College of Optometry Alumni Association has named Dr. Joseph Boorady its 2018 Alumnus of the Year. The 1993 graduate was honored during the Envision New York alumni reception Saturday, October 20 at the Princeton Club of New York. Dr. Boorady, who currently serves as global vice president, […]

October 15, 2018

Alumni Reunion 2018: Meet the Class Ambassadors

Dr. Katie Brogan ’18, Dr. Quy Nguyen ’13, Dr. Jennifer Hue ’13 Dr. Rebecca Marinoff ’08, Dr. Long Tran ’03 Dr. Ken Sorkin ’93, Dr. Viola Kanevsky ’93, Dr. Kara Pasner ’93 Dr. Felicia Donnolo ’88, Dr. Michael Melzer ’83, Dr. Susan Resnick ’83 Dr. Nina Kalmanson Purvin ’78

October 12, 2018

The First Graduates of the New Century: Reunion Weekend for SUNY Optometry Alumni of the 2000s

The classes of the aughts entered SUNY Optometry when the world was celebrating a new millennium. But for the students who were looking to become optometrists, school meant what it had forever: lots of work and not much sleep. “It was like boot camp,” says Dr. Rebecca Marinoff ’08, who is now an associate clinical […]

October 12, 2018

Prepared for Greatness: SUNY Optometry Alumni of the 1990s Toast to the College Community

Racking up continuing education (CE) credits can be a rather boring exercise. But the 17th annual Envision NY will be anything but boring. In between courses on medical error prevention and infection control, SUNY Optometry alumni will have the opportunity to reconnect during the reunion reception created just for them. All three reunion ambassadors for […]

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