SCO News

Congratulations to Southern College of Optometry’s new Student Government Association officers for the 2011-2012 year. SGA Executive committee: President: Sam Johnson Vice President: Kyle Kragenbrink Secretary: Jennifer Henry Treasurer: Kaila Egan Class of 2012 officers: President: Stephanie Cullinan Vice President: Diana Mikhail Secretary: Amy Slama Treasurer: Jenessa Hartman Class Representatives: Jessica Allison and Truc Ly Nguyen Class of... Read More

Cristie Upshaw Travis, Chief Executive Officer of the Memphis Business Group on Health, recently was named to the Board of Trustees at Southern College of Optometry (SCO) in Memphis. CEO of the Memphis Business Group on Health since 1994, Travis earned her Master of Science degree in Health Administration from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her career includes consulting with continuing care retirement communities, hospitals and physicians with Ernst & Whinney in... Read More

Ten members of the Class of 2014 were recently selected as Southern College of Optometry's newest student ambassadors. Seen below are: Standing: (L-R) Anna Lammers, Leah Beckman, Drew Bradbury, Savannah Brunt, Blake Jarrard, Tina Schiller, Suzanne Brennan Sitting: (L-R) Ross Chatwin, Adam Young, Matt Cox SCO's student ambassadors assist in student recruitment, admissions, and public relations functions of the college. They are selected each spring from the current... Read More

SCO's chapter of the Gold Key Society has announced its 2011-2012 members. Gold Key International is an honor society whose membership is restricted to ten percent of the fourth-year class. Membership is awarded to students who demonstrate outstanding leadership and professional and ethical attitudes toward the college, optometry and society. Congratulations to: Brett Miller, President Jared Quesenberry, Vice President Amy Slama, Secretary Elizabeth... Read More

The newest edition of Optometric Education contains two articles by SCO faculty. Drs. Tressa Eubank and Jill Pitts authored "A Comparison of Learning Styles Across the Decades," (p. 72) while Dr. Cheryl Ervin and colleagues authored "Private Practice Residency in Vision Therapy and Rehabilitation" (p. 87). The articles appear in Volume 36, Number 2, the Winter/Spring 2011 edition: http://www.opted.org/files/OE_WINTER_2011-sm.pdf Read More