25 Dr. Kevin Willeford Receives Ezell Fellowship Schnurmacher Institute for Vision Research Colloquia Bringing world renowned scientists to the College to promote intellectual exchange GABY MAIMON The Rockefeller University Quantitatively Tuned Efference Copies During Gaze Changes in Drosophila WEIJI MA New York University The Representation of Uncertainty in Visual Cortex PAULINE KANG University of New South Wales Myopia Control with Orthokeratology JOHANNES BURGE University of Pennsylvania The Lawful Imprecision of Human Tilt Estimation in Natural Scenes ARTHUR SHAPIRO American University Illusions: Studying the Weird to Gain Insight on the Ordinary CECILIA CHAO SUNY College of Optometry Do Contact Lens Wear and LASIK Induce Inflammatory Response EYAL SEIDEMANN The University of Texas at Austin Decision Related Activity and Top-down Attentional Modulation in Primate V1 STEPHEN TSANG Columbia University Precision Genome Surgery for Imprecision Medicine JUAN CARLOS LETELIER Universidad De Chile ECG and Random Noise: Envelope Analysis of EEG Traces HUAIYU HU Upstate Medical University A Role of Ciliary Pocket Matrix in Maintaining Photoreceptor Survival MANAS BISWAL University of Florida Objective Assessment of Retinal Ganglion Cell Damage in Glaucoma CATHERINE CHENG The Scripps Research Institute Dissecting the Mechanisms for Lifelong Homeostasis and Transparency in the Eye Lens ICHIRO KURIKI Tohoku University Representation of Color Information in Human Visual Cortex STEFANIE WOHL University of Washington The Role of miRNAs in Muller glia Maturation and Function SUNY Optometry OD/MS alumnus and current PhD student Dr. Kevin Willeford has been named a 2017-18 John H. Schoen Ezell Fellow by the American Academy of Optometry Foundation (AAOF). The Ezell Fellowship Program was established by the AAOF, a philanthropic organization which develops and provides financial support for optometric research and education, in 1949. The award recognizes and supports talented students who are pursuing advanced degrees in optometric research and education. Former Ezell Fellows have become deans and presidents of optometric schools and colleges and faculty members. Dr. Willeford is currently studying visual processes and psychological states with electrophysiological methods. His work with Dr. Robert McPeek, an associate professor of biological sciences, aims to elicit the role(s) of the superior colliculus and frontal eye fields in programming of attentional processes and saccadic eye movements. In addition to his SUNY Optometry degrees, Dr. Willeford received his BS in neuroscience with minors in chemistry and English from the University of Miami and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry. Dr. Kevin Willeford
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