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Haydée García-Lázaro receives FoVea Award 2021 from Vision Sciences Society

May 21st, 2021

The FoVea Travel and Networking Award has the mission to advance the visibility, impact, and success of women in vision science. It is open to female members of the Vision Science Society (VSS) in pre-doctoral, post-doctoral, pre-tenure faculty, or research scientist positions. Haydée García-Lázaro, a postdoctoral fellow at SKERI working with Dr Satani Teng, received the FoVea Travel and Networking Award 2021 from Females of Vision et al., & Vision Sciences Society.

Haydée García-Lázaro receives the Elsevier/Vision Research Virtual Travel Award 2021 from the Vision Sciences Society

May 14th, 2021

Haydée García-Lázaro, a postdoctoral fellow at SKERI working at TengLab received the Elsevier/Vision Research Virtual Travel Award 2021 from the Vision Sciences Society

SKERI Engineer Featured on the Blind Abilities Podcast

May 14th, 2021

SKERI engineer, Brandon Biggs, was featured on the Blind Abilities podcast to discuss Audiom - a SKERI Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center

SKERI Mourns the Passing of Dr. Arthur Jampolsky

March 20th, 2021

With great sorrow, we announce that our beloved Founder Dr. Arthur Jampolsky passed away peacefully in his sleep on March 19, 2021.

SKERI Intern awarded grant to build an eye movement simulator

January 6th, 2021

Kassia Love (a SKERI virtual intern from Harvard University) received a Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research, in collaboration with SKERI researchers, Natela Shanidze and Anca Velisar, to build an eye movement simulation robot.

Dr. Arvind Chandna Receives the PMC Department of Ophthalmology Residency Teaching Award for 2020

June 24th, 2020

Arvind Chandna, M.D., Senior Clinician Scientist at Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute was selected as a recipient of a CPMC Department of Ophthalmology Residency Teaching Award for 2020. This award was presented to him at the Barkan Research Symposium on Saturday, June 13, 2020, via Zoom.

Audiom allows for accessible, virtual visits to the Magical Bridge playground

June 8th, 2020

The Magical Bridge Foundation mission is to bring inclusive, accessive playgrounds that can be enjoyed by all children. For the first time, it is now possible for blind and visually impaired visitors to view a nonvisual map of the Magical Bridge Playground in Palo Alto, at home, directly from their web browser using Audiom. Audiom was developed by Smith-Kettlewell researcher, Brandon Biggs, is a map viewing tool for the visually impaired. It allows non-visual access to route, landmark, and survey knowledge -- critical information needed for navigation.

SKERI Welcomes Local Students for a Day of STEM Inspiration

April 23rd, 2020

Students from Everett Middle School joined us for a day of learning what it is like to be a scientist. The Field Trip was organized by IGNITE Worldwide!, a nonprofit dedicated to inspiring girls and non-binary students to consider careers in STEM. The girls toured laboratories, met with scientists and worked on case studies. The field trip was part of our ongoing activities to increase STEM participation.

SKERI researcher awarded grant to study echolocation

February 1st, 2020

Santani Teng, an Associate Scientist at Smith-Kettlewell, has been awarded a three-year grant from The E. Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind and Visually Impaired to study the neural processes of echolocation.

Brandon Biggs brings his ideas for accessibility to SKERI

January 30th, 2020

We’re excited to welcome Brandon Biggs to the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute. Brandon arrived in August to collaborate with Dr. Coughlan, Dr. Shen and Dr. Fusco to work on accessibility research and development. This collaboration started last year, when Brandon met Dr. Coughlan at the Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired (AER) International Conference in Reno, Nevada. Brandon was then enrolled in a Master’s program in Inclusive Design at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada, which he completed in June.