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College of Optometry

Program in Physiological Optics/Vision Science

The graduate program in physiological optics/vision science is structured to provide a broad base of scientific knowledge about both human and animal visual systems. The program is appropriately flexible to permit students to develop expertise in special interests such as visual psychophysics, form and space perception, neurophysiology of vision, biochemistry, pharmacology and toxicology of the visual system, physiology of the eye, eye movement control systems, color mechanisms, binocular vision, and development of vision.

Twenty-five faculty members with diverse academic backgrounds and scientific interests participate in the program, which currently has 25 graduate students. The facilities and resources for the program are exceptional. The research laboratories all have workstations which are linked through a local network and the Internet. Shared facilities include histological laboratories, a scanning laser ophthalmoscope, eye-trackers, an electron microscope; animal quarters, an electronics shop and machine shop with full-time technical personnel, and complete audiovisual facilities. A large optometry clinic is available for patient-based research.