ARU opens £1.9m Sensory Sciences Centre

A new Sensory Sciences Centre at Cambridge’s Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) launched on January 24, including £1.9m of cutting-edge equipment, teaching and research space to support optometry, ophthalmic dispensing and audiology students.

Dr Helen Keyes, head of school at ARU, said: ‘Vision and hearing courses have now been taught at ARU in Cambridge for 30 years, and new equipment within the Sensory Sciences Centre ensures that ARU remains at the cutting edge. This is a wonderful investment for our students and for the members of the public they will go on to serve.’

The Sensory Sciences Centre, located at ARU’s Compass House on East Road, contains LED ophthalmoscopes, video slit lamps and a corneal topographer, allowing ARU students to hone their clinical skills prior to seeing patients in the university eye clinic.