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 […]
Super Science Tuesday – Why should science matter to our presidential candidates?
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Liz Heller Murray awarded ASHFoundation New Century Scholars Doctoral Scholarship
Congratulations to lab member Liz Heller Murray for winning the ASHFoundation New Century Scholars Doctoral Scholarship! This scholarship is awarded to strong doctoral candidates who are pursuing teacher-investigator careers in the academic environment. Liz will use this scholarship to help further her research on voice disorders in adult and pediatric populations.
What Nasal Endoscopy Can Tell Us About Voice Health
Dr. Cara Stepp and Elizabeth Heller Murray, M.S., CFY-SLP present a brief lecture and demonstration of nasal endoscopy, reviewing the physiology of the vocal mechanism for the Sargent virtual conference Health Matters.
New Stepp Lab Publication – Effects of adventitious acute vocal trauma
A Stepp Lab paper entitled “Effects of adventitious acute vocal trauma: Relative fundamental frequency and listener perception” has been published by the Journal of Voice. Check it out here!
Congratulations 2015 graduates!
The Stepp Lab is very proud of our spring graduates! Alexandra Martinson, Carolyn Calabrese, and Kerri Downing all finished their master’s degrees in speech-language pathology and are headed out for their clinical fellowships. Joseph Mendoza has graduated with his bachelor’s in biomedical engineering and has accepted a position as an analyst at Accenture. Congratulations, we will […]
Student Achievement Awards to Cler and Smith
Congratulations to Meredith Cler and Dante Smith for winning Henry I. Russek Student Achievement Awards!
Cara Stepp receives appointment at BU School of Medicine
Dr. Cara Stepp has been appointed as Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology at Boston University School of Medicine.
Carolyn Calabrese Passes Master’s Thesis Defense
Carolyn Calabrese, B.S., successfully defended her Master’s thesis, “Differential Specificity of Acoustic Measures to Listener Perception of Voice Quality”. Congratulations, Carolyn!
Stepp Lab will present at NeuroHAM
Stepp Lab members will present posters at NeuroHAM, a three-day conference on neural processing in humans, animals, and machines (June 10–12, 2015 at Boston University). Posters: Meredith Cler, “Speech synthesis via surface electromyographic control: Training effects” Stephanie Lien, “Utilizing nasal acceleration for the assessment of audible nasal emissions” Dante Smith, ” Effects of attention on […]