We connect the people who study vision at the University of Iowa: students, postdocs, and faculty across psychology, medicine, engineering, and business.
Our mission
To support the advancement of vision sciences by facilitating interdisciplinary dialogue and research communication for students and researchers across campus and the state of Iowa community.
Why we exist
Vision research at Iowa happens in many places: psychological and brain sciences, ophthalmology and optometry, the business school, the driving safety research institute, radiology, and engineering. These groups ask related questions with different tools, but they often work separately.
We exist to bring them into the same room, and to make their work understandable to people outside the lab.
What we do
Who we are
The Vision Sciences Association at Iowa is a registered student organization at the University of Iowa, founded in 2026 and sponsored by the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Membership is open to undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and staff.
President and founder: Fernando Castillo Rodriguez, PhD candidate, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Faculty advisor: Cathleen M. Moore, Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Contact
Email: [email protected]
Instagram: @uiowavision