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After completing a degree in biomedical engineering at the University of Rochester in 2010, Tristan Barrueco attended U.S. Navy’s Officer Candidate School and was commissioned as an ensign. An unexpected medical discharge left him wondering what to do next. “Then a friend who had recently graduated from optometry school started teaching me about the field,” […]

May 23, 2018

Class of 2018: Jennifer Nguyen

Jennifer Nguyen’s road to SUNY Optometry is arguably one that no other student has ever taken. The reason? It involved a two-year pitstop at a Bakersfield, California, Frito-Lay plant. Now, as she graduates from the College on Thursday, May 24, Ms. Nguyen is still unorthodox, as her academic achievements and community involvement blaze a trail […]

May 22, 2018

Meet the Board: Dr. Richard Soden

From student to board member, the career optometrist continues to serve the SUNY Optometry community. Dr. Richard Soden always wanted to help people—and by choosing optometry as the path to do so, he has bettered the lives of students, patients and countless others throughout New York City. “I always thought that working with people to […]

May 22, 2018

Meet the Board: Michael Contento, Class of 2020

The former banking analyst and student member of the Optometric Center of New York board found his calling at SUNY Optometry. When Michael Contento graduates from SUNY Optometry in 2020, he will have had an experience unlike most of his classmates. For starters, he will be an optometrist who also knows how to navigate Wall […]

May 18, 2018

SUNY Optometry’s Officer Akeema Wilson Receives Chancellor’s Award for Excellence

ALBANY, May 18, 2018 — Akeema Wilson, a university police officer at SUNY Optometry, has received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Classified Service. The Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence are honors conferred to acknowledge and provide system-wide recognition for consistently superior professional achievement and to encourage the ongoing pursuit of excellence in five categories: […]

May 10, 2018

Dr. Ian Nauhaus Visits SUNY Optometry’s Schnurmacher Institute for Vision Research

NEW YORK CITY — Dr. Ian Nauhaus, assistant professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, presented on functional architecture of Primate VI during SUNY Optometry’s Schnurmacher Institute for Vision Research colloquium on Friday, April 27. Dr. Nauhaus researches coding strategies and corresponding mechanisms of the brain’s visual system to uncover […]

May 10, 2018

Graduation Awards for the Class of 2018

Members of SUNY Optometry’s Class of 2018 will be honored for academic, service, and professional excellence during the annual Graduation Awards Ceremony on Thursday, May 24 at 10 a.m. in the Schwarz Theater. Congratulations and we wish you all the best as you graduate! Special Recognition Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence Tristan Campbell Barrueco Jennifer […]

May 9, 2018

Meet the Board: Harold Wilshinsky

The insurance industry professional uses his expertise to boost SUNY Optometry’s affiliated foundation. Like so many Optometric Center of New York (OCNY) board members, Harold Wilshinsky came to the College via a friend who was already serving. “Mal Gross, a good friend of mine, kept telling me about a medical college board he was on […]

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