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In January 2020, the Vision Sciences Society created a new committee committed to fostering improved networking for all members at VSS and in vision science. At the 2020 V-VSS meeting, the Committee co-organized a Town Hall to listen to the experiences of our community. The Networking Committee is currently exploring a number of initiatives, including:

• Fostering more undergraduates to attend the VSS annual meeting and providing them with mentoring
• Improving networking opportunities at VSS
• Garnering funding to support future society initiatives
• Formalizing processes for reporting any issues that might occur at the meeting, and making transparent existing VSS processes

Committee Members:
Anya Hurlbert (Chair)
Rich Krauzlis
Krystel Huxlin
(SPC rep)

Advisory Board

Michael Grubb (Visibility rep)
Amy Lindsey
Alejandro Lleras (SPARK rep)
Hongjing Lu
Liuba Papeo
Karen Schloss (FoVea rep)

Community Engagement Liaison:  Prof. Jennifer O’Brien, University of South Florida-St. Petersburg.

Each year, nominations are solicited for two positions on the Vision Sciences Society Board of Directors.

Any regular VSS member in good standing may be nominated, with the exception of individuals now on the board, or who have served on the board within the last four years.

Nomination Procedure

Each nomination must be endorsed by 3 regular or postdoc VSS members. One person should email the nomination to Shauney Wilson with a cc: to the other two nominators. The other two nominators should indicate their endorsement by forwarding the nominating email to Shauney Wilson. Please include the candidate’s recent CV and a short paragraph describing the qualifications of the nominee, as well as an assurance that the nominee is willing to serve. With their consent, nominees may remain on the nominee list for three years.

Board Member Responsibilities

Terms last for 4-5 years. Typically, one of the two fourth-year members serves as President with the other as Vice President.  For this cohort, the Presidential term would be the 2029-2030 year for the 2030 conference. The President also serves a fifth year for continuity and so that the Board will always have 9 members.

Primary responsibilities for Board member include:

• Serving on sub-committees that oversee various topics such as travel awards, satellite events, community outreach, workshops, graphic competitions, and awards 
• Attending roughly bi-monthly Board meetings via Zoom
• Preparing for and attending the in-person Board meeting in January where the program is formed for the May conference
• Attending the VSS conference, including a subset of designated talk sessions and events associated with sub-committee membership
• Dealing with special unexpected issues, such as the potential need to work with Meeting Perfect to find and vet alternative meeting sites.

Board members’ travel costs and accommodations for the January Board meeting, and accommodations and registration for the annual meeting are covered by VSS. Board members may not give talks at the meeting or participate in symposia during their service (although members of their lab may do so). In addition, Board members cannot submit nominations or letters of support for VSS Awards. 

Selection of the Slate of Candidates

The VSS bylaws provide for a Nominating Committee, composed of VSS members who are highly respected scientists chosen to represent the broad range of disciplines representative of VSS members (the VSS President chairs the Nominating Committee). The current members of the Nominating Committee are Krystel Huxlin (current VSS President), SP Arun, Roland Fleming, Mary Hayhoe and Ruth Rosenholtz. For each open Board position, the Nominating Committee selects from the nominees a slate of candidates who are highly respected scientists and who, when added to the Board of Directors, would result in broad representation of the disciplines representative of VSS members.