It is truly a privilege and honor to receive the Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award. With this award, we are thrilled to expand our research program to study verbal communication abilities among children with autism, thanks to the support of the Hartwell Foundation. Stay tuned for more on this coming soon! Professor Jennifer Zuk Receives […]
Congratulations to Hannah Stetson on a wonderfully successful Master’s thesis defense of her project, “Parent-child conversational interactions during shared book reading in toddlerhood in relation to child language status.” This is the first thesis defense in our lab (!), and led Hannah to earn her Master’s degree and embark on her profession in clinical speech-language […]
Happy new year! As we welcome 2022, our lab has been joyfully reflecting on the milestone accomplishments of multiple lab members in Fall 2021: Ione Madsen Hardy, a senior in Linguistics and Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at Boston University, presented her summer research project at the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Symposium, with a poster […]
We have been fortunate to host two visiting PhD students from the University of Houston this past summer: Juliana Ronderos, rising 5th year student, dedicated her summer to brain-behavior analyses to investigate relationships between white matter brain structure and language/reading abilities among bilingual children using a large-scale NIH open source dataset. Michelle Hernandez, rising 2nd […]
It has been remarkable to build our community and research program exclusively in a remote capacity throughout the Fall and Spring semester. After months and months of Zoom lab meetings… What a joy and gift to finally gain the opportunity to hold our first lab meeting in person! Very thankful to have such a vibrant […]
We are beyond thrilled to share a glimpse at our newly renovated lab space! After months of lab design and construction (in every aspect!), it is exciting to officially start settling into the newly established Communication and Neurodevelopment Lab here at Boston University. It is exhilarating to envision the innovation, discovery, connection, and collaboration that […]