News
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 evoked potentials for brain-computer interface control"
Meredith Cler’s F31 Funded
Meredith Cler's F31 application entitled "Optimization and prediction for fast and robust AAC" has been selected for funding by the NIH/NIDCD.
Kerri Downing Passes Master’s Thesis Defense
Kerri Downing, B.A., has successfully defended her Master's thesis, "Perceptual Judgment of Hypernasality and Audible Nasal Emission in Cleft Palate Speakers". Congratulations, Kerri!
Stepp Lab Presents at AQL
Dr. Cara Stepp presented "Automated algorithms for estimation of relative fundamental frequency in individuals with and without voice disorders" at the 2015 Advances in Quantitative Laryngology, Voice and Speech Research Conference in London this week.
Dr. Stepp Receives NSF CAREER Award
Assistant Professor Cara Stepp (SAR, BME) has received the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award in recognition of her outstanding research and teaching capabilities. Read more
A Smile that Controls Machines: research helps people communicate using facial movement
Stepp Lab undergraduate Carolyn Michener featured in Inside Sargent magazine.
Dr. Stepp Named Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow
Dr. Cara Stepp, assistant professor in the Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences and director of the Sensorimotor Rehabilitation Engineering Lab has been named a Hariri Institute 2014 Junior Faculty Fellow. Stepp is one of five professors selected for this honor by the Boston University Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering. Read more
Liz Heller Murray Beginning Clinical Fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital
Congratulations to Liz Heller Murray who is starting a speech-language pathology clinical fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital in the Speech-Language Pathology Program. Liz will both evaluating and providing therapy for children with voice and resonance disorders.
The Science Behind a Simple, but Vital Pleasure
Cara Stepp featured in Inside Sargent magazine.
Expert quote:
“In upper limb rehab, there are lots of studies showing that engaging individuals in motor rehab with a video game is really effective. We’re adapting that to swallowing and velopharyngeal dysfunction.”