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Fourth-Year SUNY Optometry OD student, Vanessa Fimreite, the first recipient of the SUNY Student Innovator Award, on her innovation: Mobile Acuity and Vision Assessment (MAVA)

Scientists have been studying how visual space is mapped in the cerebral cortex for many decades under the assumption that the map is equal for lights and darks. Surprisingly, recent work demonstrates that visual brain maps are dark-centric and that, just as stars rotate around black holes in the Universe,…

Third Year Doctor of Optometry student Pratik Patel talks about going from a small town in Pennsylvania to the bright lights of New York City

Pratik Patel talks about what it’s like to be a third year student in the Doctor of Optometry program at the SUNY College of Optometry

Dr. Jenelle Mallios, chief of the Pediatric Service at the University Eye Center, explains the details of a pediatric eye exam.

Grayson was born with a cataract. At the University Eye Center, his family found the care that they needed to help him see better.

A look at the activities of the SUNY College of Optometry supported by its foundation the Optometric Center of New York.

South African optometrists must acquire 600 clinical hours in a facility providing exposure to therapeutics. SUNY Optometry has partnered with the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban to expose more of the country’s optometrists to therapeutic care. Dr. Lynette De Smedt of De Smedt Optometrists in Pretoria discusses her hands-on training…

SUNY Optometry has partnered with the Snowvision Charitable Trust since 1998. The New Zealand-based organization is dedicated to improving the clinical skills and knowledge of its country’s optometrists. Nearly three dozen New Zealanders have participated in the program to date.