Hearing and Speech Sciences

Archive of MA-SLP Student Awards

Peitzu Tsai's (M.A. SLP) thesis/candidacy research was accepted to the prestigious International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, held in 2008 in Banff, Alberta.
Amy Strekas' (M.A. SLP) poster on her MA thesis was accepted to the Boston University Conference on Language Development in Fall 2008. This is an extremely competitive conference with a very high rejection rate.
Anna Synnestvedt (M.A. SLP) was awarded an ASHA travel grant to present her poster on narrative skills in children with focal epilepsy in Chicago in November 2008.

Christine Virion (M.A. SLP, 2008 ) was awarded the NIDCD Student Fellowship to present her MA thesis project at the Clinical Aphasiology Conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in May 2008. The project, titled "Go aphasia!: Examining the efficacy of Constraint-Induced Language Therapy for agrammatic aphasia" was mentored by Dr. Faroqi-Shah. These merit-based fellowships include a travel stipend and mentoring opportunities.

Sarah Haszko (M.A. SLP, 2008) was awarded a 2006 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.

Inbal Eschel (M.A. SLP, 2004) received a Student Travel Award to attend the 2004 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention in Philadelphia, PA.
Darlene Foster (M.A. SLP, 2008) 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.