Students from the New England College of Optometry (NECO) were recently honored for their achievements.
Juan Ding, a member of NECO's Accelerated Optometric Degree (AODP) program Class of 2017, was recently named the 2016 recipient for the Dr. Norman Wallis Award for Excellence after receiving the highest score in the country for the National Board of Examiners in Optometry (NBEO) test, Part 1. She will reportedly be honored for her accomplishments at the annual AOA meeting in Boston this June.
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And two second year students from NECO recently received grants and awards for their research at the annual conference for the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). Lenna Walker and Micaela Gobeille were each awarded a $2,000 Beta Sigma Kappa (BSK) student grant for their research projects and poster presentations. Both students are part of NECO's dual OD/MS degree program, which allows students to earn a master of science in vision science while also pursuing an OD degree.
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Source: New England College of Optometry