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Robert D. DeVoe, PhD Room No.526, Phone: (812) 855-2861 email:devoe@indiana.edu

Dr. DeVoe received his B.A. in Chemistry from Oberlin College in 1956 and his Ph.D. in Biophysics from The Rockefeller University in 1961. He was Lecturer, Assistant and Associate Professor of Physiology, Associate Professor of Neuroscience at the The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 1961 to1983. He was Director of the Year I (accelerated) Program, Office of the Dean (1970-1973; 1976-1977). Since 1983 he has been Professor of Optometry at the Indiana University School of Optometry and Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Indiana University School of Medicine. He was Chairman, Department of Visual Sciences at the School of Optometry (1985-1988, 1990-1992). He has also been a Visiting Professor, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (1995, 1996, 1997). His areas of teaching have included cellular physiology, retinal physiology, systemic physiology, and neuroscience. His areas of research have included flicker vision, spectral sensitivities of spiders, scorpions and dragonflies, and directional selectivities of visual cells in fly brains and turtle retina. He has had grants from the United States Public Health Service-National Institutes of Health Research Grant "Analysis of Flicker Retinal Action Potentials", 1962-1991.