American Academy of Optometry
The American Academy of Optometry is pleased to congratulate the recipients of the 2015 Student Travel Fellowship Awards. The travel fellowships, generously supported by an educational grant from The Vision Care Institute®, will allow five students to present their research at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) annual meeting in May of 2015. The 2015 winners and their respective schools follow:
- Stephanie Marie Marten-Ellis, University of Houston, College of Optometry
- Jillian Meadows, OD, MS, FAAO, University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of
- Optometry
- Chau-Minh Phan, MSc, University of Waterloo, School of Optometry and Vision Science
- Srilatha Vantipalli, BS in Optometry, University of Houston, College of Optometry
- Hendrik Walther, MSc, University of Waterloo, School of Optometry and Vision Science
The American Academy of Optometry administers travel fellowships in order to encourage optometry students, optometric residents, and students in eye and vision related graduate programs to attend key national meetings and exchange scientific ideas on research. Fellowships are awarded primarily for accomplishment and potential in optometric research and education, and are evaluated by the American Academy of Optometry’s Research Committee.
Applications for student travel fellowships for the Academy’s annual meeting, Academy 2015 New Orleans, will be available in July 2015. For more information visit http://www.aaopt.org/students/stf.