HESP STUDENT NEWS
Undergraduate News
- Students who will be juniors or seniors in the Fall of 2008 are eligible to apply to the Summer Research Initiative (SRI) program to be held in Summer 2008. The program is designed to encourage undergraduate students to conduct research under faculty members' supervision. The eight-week program will be held on the University of Maryland, College Park campus from June 2 through July 25, 2008. More information regarding the program and applications can be found on the SRI website.
- HESP undergraduates can in some cases receive credit toward the major for study abroad in Australia, the UK, Israel, or Canada. Interested students should contact Dr. Nan Ratner or the Undergraduate Advisor for more information.
Graduate News
- Congratulations to Lauren Wawroski, Barbara Libbin, and Sally Mahmood for successfully defending their Au.D. Dissertations!
- GRADUATE STUDENTS: Deadlines for Final Graduation Requirements.
- The NACS Program has introduced a Certificate in Neuroscience & Cognitive Science. This certificate program is designed for students pursuing doctoral degrees in NACS-related disciplines. The certificate program allows these students to obtain significant interdisciplinary training that complements their graduate degree. For information, visit the NACS website.
- Cognitive Science Readers wanted! Disability Support Service needs volunteers to read textbooks onto tape for students with disabilties. You must be able to read for NACS728. Pay is $7.50/hr with flexible hours. You can read in the comfort of your home and all materials are provided. Please contact Allison Butler at 301-314-7684.
HESP STUDENT HONORS and AWARDS
- Kelly King (Clinical Ph.D. in Audiology) and Kara Schvartz (Clinical Ph.D. in Audiology) were both awarded pre-doctoral fellowships from the Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing for the 2008-2009 year.
- Lisa Pyun received an Undergraduate Research Fellowship sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Insitute in 2008 for her honors project titled "Single word processing in bilinguals: a neuroimaging investigation". The highly competitive HHMI fellowships are provided to support innovative undergraduate projects in the biological sciences in select American Universities. Lisa's project, mentored by Dr. Faroqi-Shah, will use magnetoencephalography to examine word processing in Spanish-English bilinguals.
- Christine Virion (MA SLP) 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.
- Congratulations to Shannon Auxier, HESP Senior and President of the HESP NSSLHA chapter, for being selected to receive The Spirit of Maryland Award. The Spirit of Maryland Award is presented annually in lieu of a traditional Homecoming King or Queen honoree. The Award is presented to a male and female member of the senior class who through their achievements has most exemplified the "spirit" of the University of Maryland. Criteria for the award include outstanding scholarship, leadership, campus involvement, community service, and communication skills. The award was presented at the halftime of the Homecoming football game on October 20, 2007.Congratulations also goes to HESP Senior Rachel Caruso for being one of the finalists for the Spirit of Maryland Award.
- Kara Schvartz (Clinical Ph.D. in Audiology) 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 (Clinical Ph.D. in Audiology) 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."
- Nicole Craver (Au.D.) and Kelly Hoffard (Au.D.) were awarded one of the 2007 Outstanding Student Clinician Scholarships from Starkey Laboratories. Ten awards are given to audiolgy graduate students who are "strong candidates pursuing careers in clinical audiology and private practice."
- Kelly Hoffard (Au.D.) was also awarded the following scholarships for the 2007-2008 school year: a National AMBUCS Scholarships for Therapists; a Sertoma International Communicative Disorders Scholarship; a Stephen Bufton Memorial Educational Scholarship; an American Business Women, Covered Bridge Chapter Scholarship; and an American Business Woman, Primetime Chapter Scholarship.
- Erin McAlister (Au.D.) 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.
- Sarah Haszko (M.A.) 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.
- Kelly King (Clinical Ph.D. in Audiology) 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
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