Kimberly Dahl awarded 2021 ASHFoundation New Century Scholars Doctoral Scholarship!

Congratulations to lab member Kimberly Dahl 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. Kim will use this scholarship to help further her research examining voice and communication in transmasculine individuals and other gender-diverse populations.

Hasini Weerathunge selected to receive a Hariri Graduate Fellowship!

Congratulations to PhD candidate, Hasini Weerathunge! Hasini Weerathunge was recently selected as a Hariri Graduate Student Fellow. The Hariri Graduate Fellows Program recognizes outstanding PhD graduate students who pursue computational and data-driven research at Boston University.

Defne Abur receives NIH F31 award!

Congratulations to PhD candidate, Defne Abur! Defne was recently awarded an NIH/NIDCD F31 predoctoral fellowship to study “Longitudinal changes to speech in Parkinson’s disease phenotypes”!    

New article in ASHA Perspectives SIG 3!

Check out our new article “Research-Based Updates in Swallowing and Communication Dysfunction in Parkinson Disease: Implications for Evaluation and Management” published in the Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups SIG 3 authored by Courtney Broadfoot, Defne Abur, Jesse Hoffmeister, Cara Stepp, and Michelle Ciucci!