Hearing and Speech Sciences

Archive of HESP Student Awards

Inbal Eschel (M.A.)received a Student Travel Award to attend the 2004 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention in Philadelphia, PA.
Darlene Foster (M.A.) was a recipient of a 2004 Students Preparing for Academic & Research Careers (SPARC) Award from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. This award is intended to promote PhD career development for communication sciences and disorders undergraduate and graduate students.

Erin McAlister received a 2005 Graduate Student Scholarship from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation. The Graduate Student Scholarships are awarded to full-time master's or doctoral students in communication sciences and disorders programs demonstrating outstanding academic achievement.

Barbara Libbin has been awarded two scholarships for the 2005-2006 school year: the Janet Ruth Zober Memorial Scholarship from the Partnership for Jewish Life & Learning and the National Hearing Conservation Association Foundation Scholarship. The first scholarship was established to honor the memory of Janet Ruth Zober to help a physically-challenged and/or hearing impaired person or someone who is preparing for a career working with the physically challenged. The second scholarship was awarded based in large part on Barbara's proposed dissertation topic on monitoring hearing in University band members.

Kara Schvartz was awarded a travel grant to the 2005 Asilomar Conference where she presented a poster on relative loudness of one, two and three channel stimuli in cochlear implant listeners.

Stacey Samuels-Cole (Ph.D. in Hearing & Speech Sciences) received a Minority Travel Award to attend the 2005 MidWinter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology in New Orleans in February 2005.

Sarah Friedman (Clinical Ph.D. in Audiology) received the campus-wide 2004 Graduate Student Government Outstanding Research Assistant Award for her work in the laboratory of Dr. Sandra Gordon-Salant.

Sarah Friedman also received one of the 2004 William F. Austin Scholarships from Starkey Laboratories.

Erin McAlister (Au.D.) received a 2004 Maryland Academy of Audiology Scholarship.

Erin McAlister and Lauren Wisman (Au.D.) each received a Scholarship Award from Oticon, Inc. They are two of 100 outstanding audiology students, representing over 40 accredited U.S. academic institutions across the country, whose winning essays addressed the question, "Why is a people-oriented profession still relevant in an increasingly technology-oriented society?"