ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE The Dean Yager Award The Dean Yager Award recognizes MS and PhD students and postdoctoral fellows for outstanding research papers published or accepted for publication by a peer-reviewed journal. Carmen Pons Torres, doctoral student Neuronal Mechanisms Underlying Differences in Spatial Resolution Between Darks and Lights in Human Vision Dr. Kaushambi Roy ’18 Gap Junctional Coupling Between Retinal Amacrine and Ganglion Cells Underlies Coherent Activity Integral to Global Object Perception Dr. Nefeli Slavi ’18 Suppression of Connexin 43 Phosphorylation Promotes Astrocyte Survival and Vascular Regeneration in Proliferative Retinopathy 2018 Summer Research Fellows Supported by a T35 training grant from the National Eye Institute, the 10-week program introduces optometry students to basic, translational and clinical vision research, as well as to critical thinking and problem-solving skills essential for research, clinical practice and patient care. Dr. Franklin Bui, Residency/MS Class of 2019 Effects of Low Dose Atropine on Choroidal Thickness and Other Ocular Structures Christina Cherny, Class of 2021 Clinical Tests as Predictors of Digital Eye Strain Stephen Dellostritto, Class of 2021 Role of Hypoxia Inducible Factor-1 (HIF-1) and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-A (VEGF-A) in High Myopia Raymond Farmer, Class of 2021 Intensity Response Function of the Pupillary Light Reflex Chana Haimowitz, Class of 2021 Factors Affecting the Utility of a Virtual Reality Supra-threshold Visual Field Test Shazib Haq, UC Berkeley, Class of 2021 Geometrical Structure of Dichromatic Color Space in the Yellow-Violet and Light-Dark Plane 12 SUNY OPTOMETRY Summer Research Fellows Sherry Shang, Class of 2021 Association Between Endothelial Cell Density and Corneal Swelling in Post-Penetrating Keratoplasty Scleral Contact Lens Wear Kent Uehara, Class of 2021 Effect of Mean Luminance on Contrast Sensitivity in mTBI Patients Chloe Keying Yan, Class of 2021 Digital Eye Strain and the Critical Flicker Fusion Frequency Peter Yoon, Class of 2021 Temporal Integration of Negative Lens Wear
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