Allison Aaron Awarded Distinguished Early Career Professional Certificate!
Doctoral candidate Allison Aaron has been awarded the Distinguished Early Career Professional Certificate by ASHA! This certificate was made to “recognize and identify early career professionals in audiology and speech-language pathology who are making an impact in the areas of leadership, volunteering, or advocacy at the local, state, and/or national level.” Congratulations, Allison!
Sophie Li and Ana Haubrich Awarded UROP Funding!
Undergraduate research assistants Sophie Li and Ana Haubrich were awarded funding from BU’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program! Sophie and Ana will complete their semester-long research projects this semester. Sophie’s project is titled “Examining Effects of Vocal Effort on Vowel Formant Dispersion in Typical Speakers,” and Ana’s is titled “Respiratory Kinematics and Acoustic Estimates of Voice […]
Alum Gabriel Cler selected to the inaugural class of the NIH Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience Award Program
Stepp Lab alum Gabriel Cler has been selected as an award recipient for the NIH Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience Award Program (OSNAP)! The Outstanding Scholar in Neuroscience is a new postdoctoral recruiting effort designed to recognize and support those who are conducting exceptional research and have a great academic potential! Congratulations, Gabe!
Submission Open for 2019 Boston Speech Motor Control Symposium
We are now accepting submissions for travel fellowships (for undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral trainees) and abstracts (oral and poster presentations) for the 2019 Boston Speech Motor Control Symposium. The symposium will be held on on Friday, June 21, 2019 at the Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering located on the Boston University […]
Dante Cilento to be inducted to the BU Scarlet Key Honor Society
Stepp Lab undergraduate research assistant Dante Cilento has been selected to be inducted to the BU Scarlet Key Honor Society! For 80 years, the Scarlet Key Honor Society has been the highest honor awarded to Boston University student leaders. Inductees are students in their senior year who have exhibited exceptional leadership among their peers during […]
Dr. Gabriel Cler successfully defends his dissertation!
Congratulations to Stepp Lab member Dr. Gabriel Cler for the successful defense of his dissertation “Computational Optimization and Prediction Strategies for Increasing Communicate Rate in Phoneme-Based Augmentative and Alternative Communication.” Fantastic work, Gabe!
Version 1 automated RFF algorithms available for download!
Dr. Lien’s final dissertation study has been accepted for publication in the Annals of Otology, Laryngology, and Rhinology: Lien Y.S., Heller Murray E.S., Calabrese C., Michener C.M., Van Stan J., Mehta D.D., Hillman R.E., Noordzij J.P., Stepp C.E. “Validation of an algorithm for semi-automated estimation of relative fundamental frequency”, Annals of Otology, Laryngology, and […]
VoiceTx available in the Google Play Store!
VoiceTx is a flexible mobile application for the documentation of voice therapy that is now available in the Google Play Store. The app is free and compatible for download on all Android platforms. Try it out and tell us what you think at stepplab@gmail.com!
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 […]
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.