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Our AlumniEventsGiveNewsletter | March 2018
  • Optometry: Willy Gunawan

    Willy Gunawan's passion for making a positive contribution to the community is reflected in his establishment of The Inspiring Young Student award in the Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences, which recognises students who are making a difference to the lives' of others.

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  • Sustained Excellence in Learning and Teaching

    Congratulations to Anthea Cochrane on being the recipient of the inaugural faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences Award for Sustained Excellence in Learning and Teaching for her initiative ‘Preclinic to Practice – developing work ready Optometry students in a postgraduate course’.

    23 Mar 2018 News
  • Welcome from the Head of Department

    Welcome to our first newsletter of 2018. Since our last newsletter we have proudly watched the graduation of the class of 2017 (pictured below) and welcomed 65 new students into the first year of the Doctor of Optometry program.

    23 Mar 2018 News
  • Student achievements

    Student achievements from the Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences.

    23 Mar 2018 News
  • 2017 Alumni Award

    Congratulations to Andrew Harris, the 2017 recipient of the Department's Alumni Award.

    23 Mar 2018 News
  • 2017 Inspiring Student Award

    Congratulations to Isaac Curkpatrick on being awarded the 2017 Inspiring Student Optometrist Award.

    23 Mar 2018 News
  • HealthTech Innovation Challenge

    Congratulations to Selwyn Prea, Dr George Kong and Prof Algis Vingrys on being one of the four teams to receive a grant from the The Graeme Clarke Institutes - HealthTech Innovation Challenge (HTIC) 2017.

    23 Mar 2018 News
  • Ethics in Science

    On December 7th 2017, Professor Trichur Vidyasagar from DOVS convened and co-hosted with Professor Marcello Rosa from Monash University a public forum on Ethics in Science.

    23 Mar 2018 News
  • Research Higher Degree Colloquium

    A big thank you to the student conveners for a brilliant Melbourne School of Health Sciences Research Higher Degree colloquium.

    23 Mar 2018 News
  • BioMedVic Awards

    Congratulations to the Department's Bao Nguyen on being a commendee in the 2017 BioMedVic Early Career Clinician Researcher Awards.

    23 Mar 2018 News
  • Symposium on Visual Neuroscience

    The University of Melbourne’s Symposium on Visual Neuroscience saw two of the most eminent neuroscientists speaking about how we keep the world still when our eyes move around so much and how artists have used clever tricks to make paintings more representative of our true visual experience of the world.

    23 Mar 2018 News
  • Outreach eyecare in Sri Lanka

    In December, OD students: Lanka, Menaka and Erica, as well as Nuwan (OD graduate 2016) volunteered their services for an outreach eye care project in Sri Lanka.

    23 Mar 2018 News
  • UMeyecare

    Report from Daryl Guest, Director UM Eyecare Clinic.

    23 Mar 2018 News
  • Publications

    Departmental and staff publications.

    23 Mar 2018 News
  • UMOSS

    An update from the University of Melbourne Optometry Student Society (UMOSS).

    23 Mar 2018 News
  • Australasian Neuroscience Society

    In December 2017, Professor Vidyasagar convened and co-chaired a symposium on “Animals in Research” at the Annual Meeting of the Australasian Neuroscience Society.

    23 Mar 2018 News
  • University of Birmingham Visit

    Dr Lisa Hill from the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, College of Medical and Dental Sciences at the University of Birmingham is visiting us in the Department for the next three months.

    23 Mar 2018 News
  • Melbourne Neuroscience Institute

    The Department was visited by a couple of Year 10 students from the Melbourne Neuroscience Institute Work Experience Program at the Ocular Physiology and Ocular Biomarker Laboratories.

    23 Mar 2018 News
  • Acknowledgements

    Acknowledgements from the Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences.

    23 Mar 2018 News

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