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She will be at the College for six months beginning this fall. They say the third time’s the charm—so there are limitless possibilities as to what could happen when Sandra Wagner crosses the Atlantic for trip number three to New York City. But this time, instead of a tourist’s agenda, she will have a scholar’s […]

June 25, 2019

SUNY Optometry Announces 2019 Faculty Promotions

Dr. Patricia Modica is promoted to Clinical Professor, effective July 1, 2019. Dr. Modica is a graduate of Rutgers University and the Pennsylvania College of Optometry. She is residency-trained in neuro-optometry, a diplomate of the American Board of Optometry and a fellow of the American Academy of Optometrists. She is a nationally recognized leader in the […]

June 24, 2019

SUNY Optometry Residency Alumnus Dr. Benjamin Casella Named AOA Optometrist of the Year

NEW YORK, June 24, 2019 — Dr. Benjamin Casella of SUNY Optometry’s residency class of 2008 is the 2019 American Optometric Association (AOA) Optometrist of the Year and the College’s Distinguished Residency Alumni Award recipient. Dr. Casella is a 2007 graduate of The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Optometry and completed his residency […]

June 21, 2019

SUNY Optometry Clinical Professor Dr. Murray Fingeret Inducted into National Optometry Hall of Fame

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 […]

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