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Dr. Teng awarded grant to model human echolocation
September 1st, 2021
The National Eye Institute has awarded an R21 grant to Santani Teng, an Associate Scientist at Smith-Kettlewell, to model perceptual mechanisms of echolocation.
Kassia Love Wins Best Paper Award at ETRA 2021’s ActivEye Workshop
June 3rd, 2021
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 GarcÃa-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 GarcÃa-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 GarcÃa-Lázaro receives the Elsevier/Vision Research Virtual Travel Award 2021 from the Vision Sciences Society
May 14th, 2021
Haydée GarcÃa-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.