Grant Spurs Research Into Trauma-Induced Vision Loss
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Grant Spurs Research Into Trauma-Induced Vision Loss

(photo by John Russell) Tonia Rex, Ph.D., and colleagues at the Vanderbilt Eye Institute are working to uncover how best to treat ocular trauma, the fourth leading cause of blindness worldwide. It is a growing concern for the Department of Defense, which recently approved Rex for a $1.5 million grant to further study the impact […]

Geoffrey Woodman Receives Troland Research Award
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Geoffrey Woodman Receives Troland Research Award

The National Academy of Sciences has announced that Geoffrey Woodman, associate professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University, will receive a 2016 Troland Research Award. The academy gives two of these $75,000 research awards annually to     recognize unusual achievement by young investigators and to further empirical research within the broad spectrum of experimental psychology. Woodman […]

Kevin Dieter, PhD and the lab of Dr. Randolph Blake receive a prestigious National Eye Institute NRSA grant
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Kevin Dieter, PhD and the lab of Dr. Randolph Blake receive a prestigious National Eye Institute NRSA grant

Kevin Dieter, PhD and the lab of Dr. Randolph Blake receive a prestigious National Eye Institute NRSA grant Project title: Psychophysical and neural correlates of eye dominance in human vision Advisor: Randolph Blake Consultants: Frank Tong, Psychological Sciences and Sean Donahue, Ophthalmology, Pediatrics, Neurology Summary: While we effortlessly see a single, unitary visual world, it is […]

Announcing “VisionFest 2015″
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Announcing “VisionFest 2015″

Save the Date Monday, November 9, 2015 12-9 pm Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University This event will celebrate our rich tradition of excellence and rapid growth in vision science across Vanderbilt schools, institutes, and campuses. The schedule will include platform updates from our faculty, posters from our many talented trainees, and lunch, cocktails and dinner.  […]

Anita Disney Explores the Role of Neurotransmitters in Attention
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Anita Disney Explores the Role of Neurotransmitters in Attention

When Anita Disney was growing up in Adelaide, Australia, friends and family assumed she would become a scientist. After all, her father was a biologist and one of the founding faculty members of Flinders University. But in what she admits may have been a bit of youthful rebellion, Disney gained admission to a performing arts magnet […]

Isabel Gauthier – 2015 Professor of the Year by SEC
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Isabel Gauthier – 2015 Professor of the Year by SEC

Isabel Gauthier, David K. Wilson Professor of Psychology and professor of radiology and radiological sciences at Vanderbilt, has been selected as the 2015 Professor of the Year by the Southeastern Conference. Her work at Vanderbilt has been exemplary, and she has distinguished herself as one of the most sought-after professors for Vanderbilt students of all […]