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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.
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
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 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.
SKERI Researcher talks Indoor Navigation & Mapping on Blind Bargains
June 8th, 2020
The work of Dr. James Coughlan and Brandon Biggs was again recognized at the annual CSUN conference, where Brandon was interviewed for a podcast on Blind Bargains, a source for news and resources for the blind community.
Audiom allows for non-visual, virtual visits to the Magical Bridge playground
June 8th, 2020
The Magical Bridge Foundation mission is to build 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.
Bringing COVID-19 Data and Figures to the Visually Impaired.
May 9th, 2020
So much of the conversation about the COVID-19 pandemic has been about trends: curves and how to flatten them, models, exponential growth, and so on. These are usually conveyed visually, which means people who cannot see the graphs are excluded from the information driving our discourse, even if the raw data are screen-readable. With his A11Y COVID-19 project, Dr.
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.