Three faculty have been selected as the inaugural cohort of the Washington Research Foundation – Ronald S. Howell Distinguished Faculty Fellowship. Endowed in honor of WRF’s longtime CEO Ron Howell, the purpose of this fellowship is to catalyze the careers of
The George Gomori Award from The Histochemical Society Dr. Denis Baskin, a Joint Professor Emeritus of our department, has been awarded the George Gomori Award from The Histochemical Society, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of histochemistry
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Rachel Wong has been selected as the 2023 Boynton Lecturer. Rachel has made numerous contributions to vision science and has a stellar mentoring and training record. She is currently Professor and Chair of
Congratulations to the 2023-2025 Weill Neurohub Fellows, Marina Pavlov (Reh Lab) and Carlee Toddes (Golden Lab)! We are very proud to have you in our department and wish you every success! Read about Weill Neurohub here
Do people and monkeys see colors the same way? Summary: Some nerve cells circuits for colour vision are uniquely human, shows a new study led by Yeon Jin Kim and Dennis Dacey from the University of Seattle Washington, and
REMEMBRANCE MESSAGE Professor Daniel O. Graney, Ph.D., Dept of Biological Structure Dan Graney was a dedicated educator who taught Human Anatomy, Neuroanatomy, Histology and Embryology to generations of MD, MD/PhDs, DDSs, RNs and other healthcare professionals in Surgery, Ophthalmology, Urology
APPLICATION FOR TRAINEE AWARDS The goal of the William and Lucille Clark Fund is to create and support novel opportunities for development, implementation, and networking on innovative scientific research for trainees in the Department of Biological Structure. William and Lucille Clark
Congratulations to Kiara Eldred and Anna Bowen, who have been selected as 2022 Hanna Gray Fellows of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)! We are very proud to have you in our department and wish you every success! Read about
Dr. Rachel Wong is the recipient of the 2022 Friedenwald Award from the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). This achievement award honors outstanding research in the basic or clinical sciences as applied to ophthalmology. The 2022 ARVO Achievement
Dr. Nick Steinmetz and his lab have been honored with the CAREER Award, which is the “most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty” from the National Science Foundation. The five-year award, titled “Distributed spatial neural dynamics”, is for approximately
