(PRESS RELEASE) The American Academy of Optometry congratulates the recipients of the 2019 Student Travel Fellowship Awards. The travel fellowships, supported by Johnson and Johnson Vision Care Inc., will allow five students to present their research at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2019 annual meeting. The 2019 recipients and their respective schools are:
- Suman Adhikari, BOptom, University of Houston
- Moonjung Choi, MS, Indiana University
- Justin Courson, University of Houston
- Nicole Karson, University of Houston
- Natalie Stepien-Bernabe, University of California, Berkeley
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 Academy 2019 Orlando and the 3rd World Congress of Optometry, will be available in July 2019. For more information visit http://www.aaopt.org/students/stf.
