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ALBANY, December 18, 2018 – SUNY Optometry’s director of communications, Amber E. Hopkins Tingle, completed the 2018 New York State Leadership Institute (NYSLI) on December 17. The program was designed by the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations and Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy to increase the leadership effectiveness of Management/Confidential employees by providing […]

December 15, 2018

SUNY Optometry Hosts COORD Visiting Scholar Dr. Jianfeng Wu

This semester, SUNY Optometry welcomed Dr. Jianfeng Wu, an ophthalmologist from Shandong, China and the latest participant in the China Optometry and Ophthalmology Resource Development (COORD) Visiting Scholars Program. The international collaboration is an effort to address China’s urgent need for optometrists and access to eye care and the recent expansion and development of five-year […]

December 13, 2018

Eyes on New York Awards to Honor Regeneron, Fromer

NEW YORK, December 13, 2018 – The Optometric Center of New York (OCNY), the affiliated foundation of the State University of New York (SUNY) College of Optometry, will host its 16th annual Eyes on New York Awards Celebration at Cipriani 42 in New York City on Friday, March 22, 2019. This year’s event will celebrate Regeneron and Drs. Mark […]

December 7, 2018

Familiar Faces @ SUNY Optometry: Dr. Christy Sell

The OD/MS graduate returns to the College she knows and loves as an assistant clinical professor. Many alumni love the SUNY Optometry community, but few show it like Dr. Christy Sell. A graduate of the OD/MS program (’01 and ’02), she recently returned to the College for her third stint as an assistant clinical professor […]

December 7, 2018

SUNY Optometry Alumni Drs. A.J. and Annette Contento on the Perks of Running a Family Practice

The couple credits the College with giving them a start—and shaping their future. Eye Care Unlimited opened its doors in The Bronx on September 8, 1992. But its origin story began five years earlier. In fall of 1987, president and co-owner A.J. Contento (OD ’90) donned a priest costume and attended the annual SUNY Optometry […]

December 3, 2018

Darlene Archer Visits SUNY Optometry’s Schnurmacher Institute for Vision Research

NEW YORK CITY — Darlene Archer, a doctoral candidate in neuroscience in the Usrey lab at University of California, Davis, presented on asymmetries in contrast gain and spatial integration during SUNY Optometry’s Schnurmacher Institute for Vision Research colloquium on Friday, November 30. Ms. Archer focuses on the function of corticogeniculate feedback and using electrophysiology and […]

November 19, 2018

Dr. Denis Pelli Visits SUNY Optometry’s Schnurmacher Institute for Vision Research

NEW YORK CITY — Dr. Denis Pelli, professor of psychology and neural science at New York University, presented on the phenomenon of crowding and how it offers clues into how people recognize objects during SUNY Optometry’s Schnurmacher Institute for Vision Research colloquium on Friday, November 16. Dr. Pelli studies letter and object recognition. He has also […]

November 16, 2018

SUNY Optometry’s Benoit, Tan Receive 2018 VSP Global Scholarships

ORLANDO, FL, November 16, 2018 – SUNY Optometry fourth-year students Jacqueline Benoit and Brenda Tan have received 2018 Practice Excellence Scholarships from the American Academy of Optometry Foundation (AAOF) and VSP Global. Two students from each school or college of optometry were selected by nomination of their individual institutions to receive the scholarships, which are […]

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