Archive of Audiology Student Awards

Audiology Student Awards:

• Sarah Friedman (Au.D.) was awarded first prize in the "Human Behavior & the Mind" division at the 2009 University's Graduate Research Interaction Day (GRID) for her research entitled "Recognition of Rapid Speech in Blind & Sighted Older Adults".
  
  
• Allison Hearn (Au.D.) was elected to be the 3rd year member at large for the Student Academy of Audiology and will serve from July 2009 to July 2010.
  
  
• Kara Schvartz (Au.D./Ph.D.) and Sarah Friedman (Au.D.) both received a Mentored Doctoral Student Research Poster Session awards from the National Institute of Health and the American Auditory Society. This award covered all of their expenses to attend the American Auditory Society Meeting in Scottsdale in March 2009. Kara's presentation was "Effects of aging on spectro-temporal coding of voice-pitch information". The title of Sarah's presentation was "Recognition of rapid speech by blind and sighted older adults".
  
  
• Kelly Hoffard (Au.D.) was awarded one of the 2008 Graduate Student Scholarships from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation. The $5000 Graduate Student Scholarships are awarded to full-time master's or doctoral students in communication sciences and disorders programs demonstrating outstanding academic achievement.
  
  
• Congratulations to Kelly Hoffard (Au.D.) who also received the following scholarships for the 2008-2009 academic year: the American Business Women's Association Stephen Bufton Memorial Education Foundation National Scholarship, the American Business Women's Association Covered Bridge Charter Chapter Scholarship, and the AMBUCS National Scholarship for Therapists.
  

• Kelly Hoffard (Au.D.) and Kara Schvartz (Au.D./Ph.D.)) received Sertoma International Communicative Disorders Scholarships for the 2008-2009 academic year. The $1,000 Scholarship is for graduate students pursuing advanced degrees in audiology or speech-language pathology from institutions in the U.S. Sertoma is a not-for-profit international organization dedicated to “Service to Mankind”. Sertoma’s primary service project is assisting the more than 50 million people with speech, hearing and language disorders.
  
  
• Kelly King (Au.D./Ph.D.) and Kara Schvartz (Au.D./Ph.D.) were both awarded pre-doctoral fellowships from the Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing for the 2008-2009 year.
  

• Kara Schvartz (Au.D./Ph.D.) received a student scholarship to attend the conference: Aging and Speech Communication: An International and Interdisciplinary Research Conference. The conference was held on the Bloomington Campus of Indiana University on October 7-10, 2007. Kara presented recent data from her candidacy project entitled "Effects of Aging on the Recognition of Spectrally Degraded Speech".
  
  
• Jian Yu (Au.D.) and Kara Schvartz (Au.D./Ph.D.) received student travel awards to the 2007 Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses held in Lake Tahoe, California from July 15-20, 2007. Kara presented a poster on preliminary data from her candidacy project entitled, "Effects of Aging on the Recognition of Spectrally Degraded Speech". Jian Yu presented a poster entitled, "Electrode Discrimination and Modulation Sensitivity in Electric Hearing."
  
  
• Kelly Hoffard (Au.D.) received the following scholarships for the 2008-2009 academic year: the American Business Women's Association Stephen Bufton Memorial Education Foundation National Scholarship, the American Business Women's Association Covered Bridge Charter Chapter Scholarship, and the AMBUCS National Scholarship for Therapists.
  
  
• Erin McAlister (Au.D., 2007) received the Mentored Student Poster Session travel award for her poster presentation "DPOAE suppression using ipsilateral forward maskers of varying bandwidths" at the Annual Meeting of the American Auditory Society in Scottsdale, Arizona, in March 2007. The poster was based on her dissertation project and was mentored by Drs. Sandra Gordon-Salant and Tracy Fitzgerald.
  

• Kelly King (Au.D./Ph.D.) was selected as the recipient of the 'James Jerger Award for Excellence in Student Research in Audiology' for her poster entitled, "Auditory phenotype and karyotype of Turner syndrome" at the American Academy of Audiology convention in Minneapolis, MN in April 2006. Kelly's poster was based on research completed in collaboration with adjunct faculty Chris Zalewski and Dr. Carmen Brewer and others at National Institute for Deafness and Other Communication Disorders at the NIH .
  
  Pictured below are Dr. Linda Hood, Dr. James Jerger and Kelly King

• Erin McAlister (Au.D., 2007) 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 (Au.D., 2008) was 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 (Au.D./Ph.D.) 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 (Au.D.) received the campus-wide 2004 Graduate Student Government Outstanding Research Assistant Award for her work in the laboratory of Dr. Sandra Gordon-Salant.

• Erin McAlister (Au.D., 2007) ) received a 2004 Maryland Academy of Audiology Scholarship.

• Erin McAlister (Au.D., 2007) and Lauren Wisman (Au.D., 2008) each received a Scholarship Award from Oticon, Inc. They were 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?"
  
  
• Our program is proud to have numerous past recipients of scholarships from Starkey Laboratories.

  William F. Austin Award
  ($10,000 to to support strong candidates pursuing clinical, teaching and research careers.)

  2008
  Maureen D'Antuono (Au.D./Ph.D.)
  Kelly Hoffard (Au.D., 2009)
  
  2004
  Sarah Friedman (Au.D., 2009)
  
  Outstanding Student Clinician Award
  ($1,000 to support strong candidates pursuing careers in clinical audiology and private practice.)
  
  2008
  Bria Johnson
  
  2007
  Nicole Craver (Au.D., 2009)
  Kelly Hoffard (Au.D., 2009)