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.
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 […]
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
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
Victoria presented a talk on “Neck-Surface Acceleration as an Estimate of Subglottal Pressure during Modulated Vocal Effort and Intensity in Healthy Speakers.” Dr. Stepp presented a keynote lecture on “Objective Assessment of Vocal Hyperfunction” as well as a talk on “Auditory-Motor Impairments as a Potential Risk Factor for Hyperfunctional Voice Disorders.”
Liz Heller Murray awarded F31 (NRSA)
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.
Dr. Stepp featured by BU Alumni
Dr. Stepp was featured by BU Alumni, explaining why a gift to BU matters to individuals with communication impairments. https://twitter.com/bualumni/status/803678866078208000