ASCO’s annual Student Award in Clinical Ethics, sponsored by Alcon, is available to optometry students during any point in their professional program at an ASCO-affiliated school or college of optometry in the U.S. and Canada.

For the first time in 16 years, the percentage of full-time female faculty decreased at the U.S. schools and colleges of optometry. Full-time (FT) female faculty comprise 59.9% of total FT faculty, according to ASCO’s 2023-2024 Annual Faculty Data Report, falling from 60.8% last year. The percentage had risen steadily since 2007-2008, when it was 40.8%.

The Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry (ASCO) announces Eye Opener Sessions, a complement to ASCO’s public awareness campaign, Optometry Gives Me Life.

The Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry offers a Career Center resource, hosted by Boxwood.

Congratulations to Our 2024 Winners of the OCULUS Optometry Student Scholarship!

Jason Tu, OD, Reveals How to Boost Customer Satisfaction and Efficiency Using Top-notch Technology in Eye Care

VSP Vision Doubles Investment in Student Loan Repayment Program and Opens 2024 Application Period

Jeffrey J. Walline, OD, PhD – Optometric Educator of the Year

 

Maggie Dunn – Student of the Year Award

It started off with a toque and ended up with Akirta Sran, OD ‘20, and Brendan Connors, OD ‘20, two Pennsylvania College of Optometry (PCO) at Salus University alumni, getting married backwards and without a ring. And, along the way, four attempted proposals got delayed because of rain, just to add another level of uniqueness to a love story that started at PCO.

The Dry Eye Clinic at UC Berkeley has added the OptiLight Intense Pulsed Laser (IPL) by Lumenis to their arsenal of in-office technologies to treat the signs and symptoms of dry eye. IPL, used commonly in dermatology to treat rosacea and reduce telangiectasia (tiny, new blood vessels), is now being used to treat dry eye disease. Specifically, IPL treats the most common cause of dry eye disease – meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD).

On top of her busy schedule as a second-year student in the Pennsylvania College of Optometry (PCO) at Salus University, Edesthele Decius ‘26OD released a children’s book titled, “Grandma, Can You See?” in early 2024.

Vision Science Graduate Program students, each of whom has prior academic and/or professional success, are driven by the desire to make discoveries that could impact humanity. During the 2022-2023 academic year, several students made significant steps toward achieving this worthy goal.

The New England College of Optometry (NECO) is honored to recognize its 2023 Distinguished Alumni honorees: Dr. Ansel T. Johnson ’85 and Dr. Mary Scott ’68.

Dr. Lindsay Elkins, SCO’s Chair of Optometric Education, was named by the Memphis Business Journal to its Highest Education Who Lead award recipients.

Dr. Catherine Hines, Director of Education and Assessment at the American Board of Optometry (ABO), always enjoys meeting the students and residents who stop by ABO’s booth at Optometry’s Meeting, Academy or SECO.

The peer and public review period officially began on March 7 and comments will be accepted through April 24.

Nominations are now open for the National Academy of Medicine's 2024 Gustav O. Lienhard Award for Advancement of Health Care, Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health, and the David and Beatrix Hamburg Award for Advances in Biomedical Research and Clinical Medicine.