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<span style="font-size: 19px;" class=""><b class=""><u class="">ANNOUNCEMENT OF 2018 AWARD </u></b></span><font size="4" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent2" style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4" class="">Every two years, the AVA invites nominations for the David Marr medal, which recognizes the achievements of an outstanding vision scientist in the early part of his or her research
career. The award is named in memory of one of the United Kingdom’s most distinguished vision researchers.</font><o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.55pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">The AVA Executive Committee is very pleased to announce that:</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.55pt;" class=""> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol;" class="">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">for her
pioneering studies of </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">visual perception, particularly in colour vision, as well as individual differences and spatial information processing, using a combination of psychophysical and genetic methods to explore
the function and biological basis of the human visual system</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">the AVA has decided to award the Marr medal for 2018 to <b class="">Dr Jenny Bosten</b>,
a Lecturer in<b class=""> </b>the Department of Psychology, University of Sussex. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.55pt;"><i style="text-indent: -0.55pt; text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">Dr Jenny Bosten</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -21.75pt; text-indent: -0.55pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">Dr Bosten has been invited to receive the award and to give a keynote lecture, which will be on the topic of: <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<b class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">“Calibrating colour perception to visual environments”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">at the upcoming <a href="http://www.theava.net/meetings.php?s=ava-xmas-2018-birkbeck-london" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">AVA Xmas conference</span></a>, 17 December 2018.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -21.75pt; text-indent: -0.55pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">Our warm congratulations go to Jenny as the 2018 winner of the AVA Marr medal.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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