As many of you may already know, on Friday our friend and colleague Professor Bosco Tjan died tragically at USC. While we are trying to come to terms with this incomprehensible tragedy, the VSS Board would like to extend its deepest condolences to his wife and son, his students and postdocs, and to his colleagues … Read more

The 2017 ARVO/VSS Research Fellowship Award application is now open through January 31, 2017. The purpose of the ARVO/VSS Research Fellowship is to encourage and foster new collaborations between clinical and basic vision researchers to better train young scientists in the area of translational research. These fellowships will provide research funds to support students who … Read more

VSS welcomes applications for satellite events to be held at the 2017 meeting in St. Pete Beach. Satellite events can be workshops, business meetings, social events or ancillary events of interest to VSS attendees, but which are not planned or sponsored directly by VSS. Admission to Satellite Events can either be by invitation to a … Read more

VSS is seeking interesting visual images to be used for the cover of the 2017 VSS printed program, t-shirts, signage, badges, and tote bags. There will be two separate graphic competitions: T-Shirt Design Competition and Program Cover Competition. This competition is open-ended in that the images might relate to submitted scientific work, St. Pete Beach … Read more

The 17th annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society will be held at the TradeWinds Island Resorts in St. Pete Beach, Florida. VSS has negotiated special room rates for the TradeWinds Island Grand and Guy Harvey Outpost hotels. New this year: VSS is pleased to offer a limited number of Government Rate rooms at the … Read more

VSS seeks proposals for symposia to be held during the 2017 VSS Annual Meeting, which begins Friday, May 19. Four to six symposia will be scheduled, each lasting two hours. VSS Symposia deal with contemporary research topics in vision research. Symposia can be organized by content area or by method, but talks within a symposium … Read more