25th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium
Stepp lab undergraduate Courtney Dunsmuir ’24 recently presented her summer research conducted through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) at BU’s 25th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, held at Boston University on October 21, 2022.
Courtney’s research explored the differential contributions of auditory and somatosensory feedback control mechanisms of laryngeal and articulatory speech subsystems in persons with Parkinson’s disease.
We would like to congratulate Courtney for her wonderful presentation and continued contribution to research conducted under Stepp Lab! She is also a recipient of Fall UROP 2022 funding.
Courtney Dunsmuir and her poster titled “Investigation of Auditory and Somatosensory Feedback in Vocal and Articulatory Motor Control Function for Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease”.
Congrats to Tyler Baxter!
Congratulations to Tyler Baxter who will be starting graduate school at University of New Hampshire's Clinical Nurse Leader program! We will miss you!
Congratulations to Stepp Lab graduates!
Many congratulations to all of our graduates who received their degrees yesterday! We will miss our clinical recruitment assistants Molly Balseiro, Julia Donovan, and Vaishalie Ramsumair who received the B.S. in Speech, Language, and Hearing sciences and our research assistants Ashling Lupiani (received the B.A. in Neuroscience) and Kate Girouard (received the B.S. in biomedical engineering).
Dr. Stepp profiled by the ASHA Leader
Dr. Stepp was recently profiled in the ASHA Leader on our lab's work on the objective assessment of laryngeal function to improve treatment strategies for hyperfunctional voice disorders. The full text is here.
Congrats to Senior Project Design Team!
Congratulations to our Senior Project Design Team, consisting of Biomedical engineering students Kate Girouard and Victoria Frick and Mechanical engineering student Evi Shiakolas, on completing their project! In collaboration with the Stepp Lab and Dr. Susan Fager at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital, the team designed an open-source switch to enable communication for severely paralyzed users who currently have no way to access an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) device! More
2017 Boston Speech Motor Control Mini-Symposium
Stepp lab members presented posters at the Boston Speech Motor Control Mini-Symposium. This event was sponsored by Boston University’s Center for Research in Sensory Communication and Emerging Neural Technology (CRESCENT) and included invited talks and a poster session on speech motor control.
Undergraduate researchers receive Summer 2017 UROP Awards!
| Congratulations to Nadia Oleinik, Jake Noordzij, and Nicole Enos for receiving Summer 2017 UROP awards! |
Jennifer Vojtech awarded 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
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Congratulations to PhD Candidate Jennifer Vojtech who was selected for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). The GRFP recognizes outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines! |
Dr. Cara Stepp and Victoria McKenna present at the 5th Occupational Voice Symposium in London
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Victoria presented a talk on "Neck-Surface Acceleration as an Estimate of Subglottal Pressure during Modulated Vocal Effort and Intensity in Healthy Speakers."
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Liz Heller Murray awarded F31 (NRSA)
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Congratulations to PhD Candidate Liz Heller Murray whose F31 (NRSA) proposal entitled "Vocal motor control in children with vocal nodules" was selected for funding! |
New article in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
Check out our newly published article: "The relationship between relative fundamental
frequency and a kinematic estimate of laryngeal stiffness in healthy adults," by Victoria McKenna, Elizabeth Heller Murray, Y. Stephanie Lien, and Cara Stepp.