Recent News
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Dr. Shanidze receives new grant from National Institute on Aging
Loss of stability and falls is a major risk factor for injury and death in older adults. Previously overlooked, lifetime noise exposure has been shown to cause... -
Joshua Miele is a 2021 MacArthur Fellow
Smith-Kettlewell is proud and honored to announce that one of our alumni, Dr. Joshua Miele, has received a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship for his work in developing devices to enable blind and visually impaired people to access everyday technologies and digital information. Widely known as a “Genius Grant,” this prestigious award reflects Josh's achievements while he was a scientist at SKERI as well as his present work begun in 2019 at Amazon Lab126. -
SKERI researcher awarded grant to model human echolocation
The National Eye Institute has awarded an R21 grant to Santani Teng, an Associate Scientist at Smith-Kettlewell, to model perceptual mechanisms of echolocation. -
Haydée García-Lázaro receives the Elsevier/Vision Research Virtual Travel...
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 -
Kassia Love Wins Best Paper Award at ETRA 2021's ActivEye Workshop
Kassia Love won the best paper award at ETRA's ActivEye Workshop for the paper "Eye, Robot: Calibration Challenges and Potential Solutions for Wearable Eye Tracking in Individuals with Eccentric Fixation". -
Haydée García-Lázaro receives FoVea Award 2021 from Vision Sciences Society
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. -
SKERI Engineer Featured on the Blind Abilities Podcast
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
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
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. -
In Memoriam: Nikolay Nichiporuk
The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute mourns the tragic loss of our young colleague Nikolay (Nick) Nichiporuk, who has tragically and unexpectedly passed...