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 Reports
Dr. Erin Koch, PhD graduate
Picture perception reveals mental geometry of 3D scene inferences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
The awards were presented on Tuesday, June 11 during the College’s annual Scholars’ Dinner, which honors scholarly contributions made by SUNY Optometry faculty and students in the past year.
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