The Election for the VSS Board of Directors Is Now Open The election for two new members of the VSS Board of Directors is now open. To cast your vote for two 4-year positions on the VSS Board, go to http://www.visionsciences.org/2017-election/. Please help shape the future of VSS. You must be a Regular 2017 VSS … Read more

VSS Is Pleased to Announce the Second Annual “Meet the Professors” Event for Students and Postdocs Monday, May 22 4:45 to 6:00 pm (before the Demo Night BBQ) Breck Deck North This will be an opportunity for a free-wheeling, open-ended discussion with members of the VSS Board and a number of other professors. You might … Read more

Janneke F.M. Jehee, Principal Investigator at the Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Raboud University, Nijmegan, Netherlands, is the winner of the 2017 Elsevier/VSS Young Investigator Award. Dr. Jehee works on the fundamental problem of understanding how the brain represents the visual properties of the environment. Her contributions have used … Read more

Congratulations to the 2017 Student Travel Award Winners. The VSS Travel Awards, sponsored by Elsevier/Vision Research, are presented to twenty graduate students who have submitted highly-rated abstracts for the 2017 Meeting. Awards are based upon the merit of the work that the student will be presenting as determined by the VSS Abstract Review Committee, as … Read more

VSS established the Davida Teller Award in 2013. Davida was an exceptional scientist, mentor and colleague, who for decades led the field of visual development. The award is therefore given to an outstanding woman vision scientist with a strong history of mentoring. Congratulations to Mary Hayhoe, Professor of Psychology at the Center for Perceptual Systems … Read more

This  year’s Public Lecture will be delivered by Nancy Kanwisher, a faculty member in the Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences at MIT. The Lecture will be held at the beautiful Museum of Fine Arts, on Saturday, May 20, 2017. Nancy’s talk, “Functional Imaging of the Human Brain as a Window into the Mind” is open … Read more