Media Relations
Tuesday,
September 9,
2003
Optometry
Indiana University School of Optometry Associate Professor Dr. Richard E. Meetz, who for 20 years directed the school's mobile eye care program that has served thousands of Indiana children, has received the most prestigious teaching award in the field of optometry.
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IUPUI Chancellor Charles R. Bantz today (Sept. 20) announced the selection of Indiana University School of Optometry Associate Dean and Professor Dr. Joseph A. Bonanno as dean of that school, pending approval by the IU Board of Trustees. Bonanno will succeed, Dr. P. Sarita Soni, vice provost for research at Indiana University, who has been serving as interim dean of the optometry school.
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A new agreement forged between Indiana University's School of Optometry, the School of Medicine's Eugene and Marilyn Glick Eye Institute and Wishard Health Services will renew IU's commitment to provide eye care to underserved residents of greater Indianapolis.
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Stephen A. Burns, an Indiana University School of Optometry professor considered an international leader in the field of retinal function and biomedical imaging, has received the Optical Society of America's Edgar D. Tillyer Award for "outstanding contributions to the science of color vision and color imaging systems, and for pioneering work on brain imaging that has illuminated the organization and function of human visual processing."
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An Indiana University School of Optometry researcher's ongoing work to improve testing for and treatment of one of the world's leading causes of blindness will advance with support from a $2.35 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
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Hundreds of Indiana's top optometrists are converging on the Indiana University Bloomington campus today as the Indiana Optometric Association's annual fall seminar gets under way.
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