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class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:19.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#474747'>Vision Sciences Society</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:white'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:white'>VSS 2018</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:white'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:white'>May 18-23, 2018</span><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:white'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:white'>St. Pete Beach, FL</span><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:white'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div></div></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center 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style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;word-wrap: break-word'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 15.0pt 7.5pt 15.0pt'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:19.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4580AD'>Nominations for the 2018 Young Investigator Award Due on February 8th</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4C4C4C'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%'><tr><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;background:#E4E3E8;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;word-wrap: break-word'><div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;word-wrap: break-word'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 15.0pt 7.5pt 15.0pt'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>Nominations for the 2018 </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0010Pd8pUxt7aVfdW6Bo_Qv5cQ6lVHOC1YFrdVrQBVX_u_1TK--_9MJDSUrNaUtioGfyjKxE7dL9H5FF_YaLhUSrzKPxbXfgLq059hIORKlU1xEw--Zmv0aKSEWZb3pG0tieEp4RvKzYg1GsilVEZ-zBVely3WXTh-9MbGDBYy0G75CD5C2vs97atqaiWVzo-Z9kxAgbPkYbvU=&c=l2db49WU8g7PDSBcr5knw80uSls_HStON60uGw2qb8HQuoIrd-94Jw==&ch=ABqs1bDp0efUSIQ-VOcfKCNxghYOOLna_YGj1IXLIXv8IjNJA2uIUg==" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#366A91'>Elsevier/VSS Young Investigator Award</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'> are being accepted through February 8th. The prize, sponsored by <i>Vision Research</i>, is awarded each year to an outstanding visual scientist who has received an advanced degree within the past ten years.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>Eligibility</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>To be eligible, the award applicant must have no more than ten years of active research/teaching experience (this allows the exclusion of times that typically “stop the clock” in academic tenure track positions). If there was no break in active research/teaching, for the upcoming 2018 award, the degree must have been awarded in or after 2008.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>Applicants must be active VSS members and have attended two of the last five VSS meetings.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>Nomination Process</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>Nominations must be made by a VSS member. They will be reviewed by an Award Committee, consisting of five established visual scientists selected from VSS membership. Members of the Award Committee and of the VSS Board of Directors cannot serve as nominators.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>The Award Committee will select the winner by March 28, 2018. The prize will be presented at the 2018 VSS Meeting in St. Pete Beach and will include an honorarium. The awardee will be asked to give a presentation of her/his work at the 2018 VSS Meeting and to write a review to be published in <i>Vision Research</i>.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>Nominations should include the following:</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;text-indent:-12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#403F42'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>A letter of recommendation containing a detailed description of the nominee's scientific contributions,</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;text-indent:-12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#403F42'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>One additional letter of support,</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;text-indent:-12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#403F42'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>The nominee's curriculum vitae.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>Nominees from previous years may be re-nominated, assuming the nominee is still eligible. A new nomination letter is required in that case.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>Nominations for the 2018 Young Investigator Award should be submitted by email to </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><a href="mailto:VSS@visionsciences.org" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#366A91'>Shauney Wilson</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p> 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