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A study conducted by 51³Ô¹Ï faculty identifies causes of visual and physical discomfort in some people when they watch 3D video content.

"At 51³Ô¹Ï I found what I needed," says author Mai Lon Gittelsohn MFA '13.

51³Ô¹Ï has named alumnus Stanley J. Yamane '65, OD '66, the 2012 recipient of the University's Kamelia Massih Prize for a Distinguished Optometrist.

Pacific sophomore Charlotte Basch started re-writing her people's history when she was 12. Now, she is a leader in the Clatsop-Nehalem Tribe and is studying ways to help bring her heritage back to life.

Award honors an outstanding optometry alumnus or alumna for care in serving both patients and communities.

Endowment will fund the Kamelia Massih Prize for a Distinguished Optometrist.

The last time Clinton Gruber '47 saw his B-24 bomber he was falling away from it, 18,000 feet above Germany. But not until 35 years later, through a chance encounter on the Internet and the kindness of strangers in two distant countries, would he learn the complete story of the incident that nearly took his life that fateful day of Dec. 1, 1943.

Some 520 51³Ô¹Ï students and alumni served in World War II. About 31, roughly equivalent to an entire senior class at the time, never came home.

It was spring, 1942 and there was war all over the world. The Great Depression had ended, but now the Allied nations were fighting for their lives as the second European war of the century metastasized with horrific swiftness into global conflict.

It had been barely a year since Calvin Van Pelt finished his freshman year at 51³Ô¹Ï when he landed at Utah Beach on D-Day, the great invasion that was the beginning of the liberation of Europe from Nazi domination.

Yukie Katayama Sumoge is one of the Japanese-American students at 51³Ô¹Ï whose education was disrupted when she was forced into an internment camp during World War II. In this 2007 archive story, she shared her story.