<div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/279958164338448/?ref=share">https://www.facebook.com/groups/279958164338448/?ref=share</a></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 19, 2022, 8:18 PM Maureen Powers <<a href="mailto:mopowers@yahoo.com">mopowers@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><div dir="ltr">Dear cvnet community--</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I am profoundly saddened by this news. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">AB was a fundamental part of the original Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, founded in 1990 when we had only the minimum number of investigators (AB, Randolph Blake, Bob Fox, Joe Lappin, Vivien Casagrande, Jon Kaas, myself, and John Reiser) to qualify for a P30 grant from NEI. VVRC has grown tremendously since then, thanks to the active involvement and leadership of "new" investigators like Jeff Schall, Frank Tong, and the Medical School -In addition to Medicine, the schools of Education, Engineering, and Liberal Arts (Graduate School) were involved in the initial Core grant.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">AB was a great friend and colleague. Yes, he could be a curmudgeon- but his curmudgeon-ness was founded in humor, and he could be very sweet (don't tell him that!). He berated me (as a professor and a mother) for "allowing" my child, then a Vanderbilt Engineering undergraduate, to enter his class in his black raincoat and sit in the last row, taking absolutely no notes. Yet Dana (my son) aced the homework, exams, and the course. Little did either of us know that he studied multiple hours every night to get the homework done - He simply memorized things during class and then applied that knowledge later - but AB was truly upset. "No one aces my courses without working!" he said to me. That student is now a super-competent computer engineer, thanks to AB's begrudging tutelage. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">AB garnered respect throughout the Vanderbilt community; he was a fabulous teacher. I am certain there are many more stories about AB's love of teaching - including more of AB's vocal resentment of students who appeared not to study.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">On a personal note: AB and I started our professorial careers at Vanderbilt at the same time, in 1979/80. He encouraged me to take the job, and I did. It was a wonderful community to work in during those years- my colleagues and the projects we worked on were exciting. But perhaps most importantly, AB convinced me to buy an MGA. It had to be red, he said, because a red car brings serenity. He was correct- I still have that red MGA (1958) and I think of AB every time I drive it.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">AB's contribution to vision science was quantitative and important, in the era when we were trying to understand basic cellular organization and interactions in the retina and how they convey information to the brain. He worked with cats, then monkeys, collaborating with some of the greatest female vision scientists - Christina Enroth-Cugell and Vivien Casagrande. I never had the pleasure of working with AB - he disdained fish - but I will forever be grateful for his contributions to visual neuroscience and to my life.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Maureen Powers</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><font style="font-family:garamond,new york,times,serif">Maureen Kennedy Powers PhD FCOVD FAAO</font> <font face="garamond, new york, times, serif">FARVO</font></div><div><font face="Garamond">Senior Scientist & Director of Research,<i> </i></font><span style="font-family:garamond,times,serif">Gemstone Foundation</span></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif">President, Eyes in Sync LLC</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif"><span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:garamond,times,serif;font-size:16px">President, Lions Vision Resource Network</span></span><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif">Global Leadership Team Coordinator, Lions Clubs International District 4-C3</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif">Phone (510) 772-4911</font></div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> </div></div></div></div>
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On Tuesday, April 19, 2022, 04:28:42 PM PDT, Jason Samonds via cvnet <<a href="mailto:cvnet@lawton.ewind.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">cvnet@lawton.ewind.com</a>> wrote:
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<div><div id="m_-7428344934043920792ydpfdf986b7yiv7394501760"><div dir="ltr">I just wanted to let members of the vision research community know that AB Bonds, Professor of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University passed away on April 10th. AB was trained by Christina Enroth-Cugell at Northwestern and Ralph Freeman at Berkeley and studied everything from optics to retina to the visual cortex. Attendees of ARVO and the early days of VSS probably know him best for his eccentric personality. As a retiree, he continued to be an adventurous world traveler and a vibrant member of the Nashville community with his interests in music and classical European cars.<div><br></div><div>----------------------------------------</div><div>Jason Samonds, PhD</div><div>Center for Learning & Memory</div><div>University of Texas at Austin</div></div>
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