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 a new NSF Outreach program. The
outreach program is funded by Dr. Eggers’ recent 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 first year
of this project that will have two main components: Developing an outreach module
that can be used at the Tucson Festival of Books in March 2017 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 Tucson
festival of books March 11-12, 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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