Nathan York, graduate student and research assistant in the lab of De-Ann Pillers, MD, PhD, and Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, recently received a travel award sponsored by the National Institutes of Health/National Eye Institute (NIH-NEI). This competitive award was received for a high score on his submitted abstract, and the research findings in the abstract were considered to be of high interest to the vision and ophthalmology research community. The funds awarded will allow him to travel to the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) annual meeting May 1-5, 2016, in Seattle, WA. Congratulations, Nathan!