UAB School of Optometry Vision Science Graduate Program

01/02/2018

The UAB School of Optometry has been ranked third in the country for vision research funding to schools and colleges of optometry. The 2016 direct costs awarded to UABSO totaled $3.35 million.

The School of Optometry ranked third nationally in research funding and second nationally in basic biomedical research funding. Michael Twa, O.D., Ph....

10/13/2017

Michael Twa, O.D., Ph.D., associate dean for research and graduate studies at the UAB School of Optometry, brought the topic of precision medicine to the 2017 American Academy of Optometry meeting, which was held this week in Chicago. Precision medicine is the approach to disease treatment and prevention that takes into account an individual's genetics and environmental risk factors: http://bit.ly/2yer8nX

10/06/2017

We loved watching the UAB Homecoming Parade as it passed by the Henry Peters Building, but we especially enjoyed seeing our own Dr. Stefanie Varghese represent us and the UAB Staff Council!

08/18/2017

Let’s gather on Hire Plaza on Monday, Aug. 21, at 12:30 pm to watch the moon pass between the earth and the sun (safely, of course!).

Bring your own solar eclipse glasses approved by the International Standards Organization. Birmingham will experience the eclipse between 12 pm and 3 pm, with maximum coverage at 1:30 pm. We will see 93 percent coverage, which means it will NEVER be safe to look directly at the sun without safety glasses.

Starting at 11:30 am, the Full Moon BBQ food truck will be in front of the Henry Peters Building.

Starting at 12:30 pm, Firecracker Popsicles will be given to the first 200 attendees!

We will be following the safe viewing practices by the American Optometric Association: http://bit.ly/2vxaXRL

08/10/2017

“Our program is one of the few schools of optometry embedded within a larger biomedical research institution and that brings unique resources and opportunities to us,” says Michael Twa, O.D. Ph.D, associate dean of research and graduate studies.

The UAB School of Optometry was accredited through April 2025: http://bit.ly/2ujE4b6

07/28/2017

Alabama children with visual impairments, blindness and deaf blindness have created art for the Helen Keller Art Show that will be displayed at The Edge of Chaos at UAB through Aug. 31. The show is sponsored in part by the UAB School of Optometry's Vision Science Research Center.

Works of art created by children with visual impairments, blindness and deaf blindness are on exhibition at The Edge of Chaos at UAB, and some works a...

07/20/2017

Congratulations to graduate student Jessica Jasien, whose paper was recently published in the ARVO journal Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, or IOVS. Well done, Jessica!

Jessica V. Jasien, Carrie Huisingh, Christopher A. Girkin, J. Crawford Downs; The Magnitude of Hypotony and Time Course of Intraocular Pressure Recovery Following Anterior Chamber Cannulation in Nonhuman Primates. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2017;58(7):3225-3230. doi: 10.1167/iovs.17-21833.

04/21/2017

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ARVO members from around the world are looking forward to the ! https://t.co/3VdWxzX1aS

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04/21/2017

Jessica Jasien, Shyam Panthi, Christopher Starr and Daniel Turner, all students with the School's Vision Science Graduate Program, received grants to support their travel to the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology so they can present their research findings. Grants are awarded to investigators whose findings are of high interest to the vision and ophthalmology research community: http://ow.ly/qgBD30aRPaz

12/13/2016

Congrats, Dr. Pittler!!!

“$2 million grant awarded to UAB to continue eye care research https://t.co/HHXnodllur”

12/13/2016

Retweeted Science ():

Female hormones increase risk of vision loss in rare genetic disease https://t.co/Imr9gxlCCZ https://t.co/GV0mSl8Sip

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12/13/2016

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Study first to show role of Parkin gene in eye lens free radical formation, cell survival https://t.co/BrAh5zoHxD https://t.co/yDj3ngiawA

Credit: Florida Atlantic University Although mutations in the PARK2 gene that encodes the Parkin protein are associated with developing early-onset Parkinson's disease (PD), much remains to be..