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UAB Optometry professor leads UAB in $25 million myopia prevention study

Safal Khanal, O.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Optometry, will serve as the principal investigator at UAB Clinical Center for the $25 million ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Fellowships for graduate study in optometry

The American Optometric Foundation, an affiliate of the American Academy of Optometry, is accepting applications for fellowships to support graduate study in optometry. Who is eligible: graduate ...
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Study finds ‘high need’ for glasses prescription updates in school-based vision program

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Three-quarters of students who failed a vision screening were prescribed eyeglasses during an eye exam. Eyeglass ...
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SUNY Optometry faculty awarded $500,000 grant from American Academy Of Optometry Foundation and Meta Reality Labs Research

SUNY College of Optometry announced today that a team of faculty researchers led by Xiaoying Zhu, OD, PhD, MD, MS, FAAO, has been awarded a $500,000 Myopia Research Grant from the American Academy of ...
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Research Facility recruiting contact lens wearers for study

The UAB School of Optometry's Clinical Eye Research Facility is recruiting subjects for a contact lens comfort study. Participants who are happy contact lens wearers and those who have stopped wearing ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Fellowships for graduate study in optometry

The American Optometric Foundation is accepting fellowship applications for graduate study in optometry. Who is eligible: students (primarily optometrists) who are entering or continuing a full-time ...