{"id":6784,"date":"2026-09-30T14:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T18:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/?p=6784"},"modified":"2026-10-08T15:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T19:30:10","slug":"jenny-vojtech-receives-ashfoundation-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/2026\/09\/30\/jenny-vojtech-receives-ashfoundation-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenny Vojtech Receives ASHFoundation Grant!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/stepplab\/files\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-30-145348-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-6786 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/files\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-30-145348-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/files\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-30-145348-630x636.png 630w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/files\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-30-145348-550x550.png 550w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/files\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-30-145348-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/files\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-30-145348-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/files\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-30-145348-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/files\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-30-145348.png 649w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Associate lab director Dr. Jenny Vojtech has been awarded a 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashfoundation.org\/apply\/new-century-scholars-research-grant\/\">New Century Scholars Research Grant<\/a> (NCSRG) from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashfoundation.org\/\">American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation<\/a> for her project &#8220;Barriers to Speech Therapy Utilization in Individuals with Parkinson&#8217;s Disease: Identifying Opportunities for Improved Care.&#8221; The NCSRG is designed to advance knowledge, tools, and techniques in communication sciences and disorders through awards of $25,000. Jenny&#8217;s project aims to better understand the factors contributing to the relatively low use of speech therapy services among people with Parkinson&#8217;s disease. Congratulations, Jenny!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate lab director Dr. Jenny Vojtech has been awarded a 2026 New Century Scholars Research Grant (NCSRG) from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation for her project &#8220;Barriers to Speech Therapy Utilization in Individuals with Parkinson&#8217;s Disease: Identifying Opportunities for Improved Care.&#8221; The NCSRG is designed to advance knowledge, tools, and techniques in communication sciences and disorders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6802,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6784\/revisions\/6802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}