Are you interested in
working on an outreach project to explain how vision works to students and the
public through personal outreach and social media?
Are you interested in learning more about the way your eyes
send visual information to the brain?
Dr. Erika Eggers is looking for a group of undergraduates to
be part of the second year of an NSF Outreach program. You can view some
of the results of the first year of our program on our blog, here: http://azretina.sites.arizona.edu/blogs
The outreach program is funded by Dr. Eggers’ NSF CAREER
Award that will study the role and mechanisms of light adaptation in the
retina. Light adaptation is the process that happens when you move from a dark
movie theater to bright sunlight and sensitivity is gradually reduced to
account for the brighter ambient light.
We are looking for students to commit to the second year of
this project that will have two main components: Developing and refining an
outreach module that can be used at the Tucson Festival of Books in March 2018
and school visits and developing a blog to discuss vision research and the
development of this educational module. This will be a team-based project where
students may focus on subsets of the total project. It would be appropriate for
independent study credit or an honors project for a senior undergraduate. All
students will be required to present the developed module at the 2018 Tucson
festival of books March 10-11, which is the first weekend of spring
break.
If you are interested, please send a statement about what
interests you about this project, a resume/CV and an informal copy of your
transcript to Dr. Erika Eggers, eeggers@u.arizona.
If you are interested in learning more about the Eggers laboratory, please see http://eggerslab.sites.arizona.edu/.
Erika Eggers, PhD
Associate Professor
Departments of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering
PO BOX 245051
University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85724
(520) 626-7137
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