{"id":531,"date":"2022-06-01T10:54:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T14:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zuklab\/?page_id=531"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:11:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:11:38","slug":"alumni","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zuklab\/our-team\/alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Postdoctoral Fellows<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Juliana Ronderos, Ph.D.<\/td>\n2021 – 2025<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Caroline Spencer, Ph.D.<\/td>\n2020 – 2023<\/td>\n<\/td>\n
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Doctoral Students<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Kelsey Davison<\/td>\n2020-2025<\/td>\nPh.D. in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences<\/p>\n

Dissertation: Caregiver Prosody During Shared Reading: Associations with Preschoolers\u2019 Language Skills and Caregiver Attributes in Monolingual and Bilingual Families<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Alex Kapadia<\/td>\n2021-2024<\/td>\nPh.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders<\/p>\n

Dissertation: Functional Connectivity of the Speech Network in Relation to Reading Skill in School-Age Children<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Masters Students<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Marion Heinrich<\/td>\n2023 – 2025<\/td>\nM.S. Speech-Language Pathology\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Caroline Strang<\/td>\n2023-2025<\/td>\nM.S. Speech-Language Pathology\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Natalie Tewksbary<\/td>\n2022 – 2024<\/td>\nM.S. Speech-Language Pathology<\/p>\n

M.S. Thesis: Examining the Relationship Between Speech and Language Sub-Skills and Speech\u00a0<\/em>Production Accuracy<\/i><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Laura Doherty<\/td>\n2020 – 2023<\/td>\nM.S. Speech-Language Pathology<\/p>\n

M.S. Thesis: The Expressiveness of Mothers\u2019 Storybook Reading in Relation to Children\u2019s Emerging Language Abilities in Toddlerhood<\/em><\/p>\n

B.S. in Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Sylvia Gisler<\/td>\n2021 – 2023<\/td>\nM.S. Speech-Language Pathology<\/p>\n

M.S. Thesis: Examining the Relation Between Motor Skills and Emerging Language Development in Infancy<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Mercy Valladares<\/td>\n2021 – 2023<\/td>\nM.S. Speech-Language Pathology<\/p>\n

M.S. Thesis:\u00a0<\/em>Parental Oral Reading Prosody During Shared Reading Experiences<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Becca Gupta<\/td>\n2021 – 2023<\/td>\nM.S. Speech-Language Pathology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Leyla Omeragic Buljina<\/td>\n2022<\/td>\nM.S. Speech-Language Pathology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dana Berkowitz<\/td>\n2020 – 2022<\/td>\nM.S. Speech-Language Pathology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hannah Stetson<\/td>\n2020 – 2022<\/td>\nM.S. Speech-Language Pathology<\/p>\n

M.S. Thesis:\u00a0<\/em>Parent-child conversational interactions\u00a0during shared book reading in toddlerhood in relation to child language status<\/i><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Shannon Lee<\/td>\n2020 – 2022<\/td>\nM.S. Speech-Language Pathology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sophia Gomez<\/td>\n2020 – 2022<\/td>\nM.S. Speech-Language Pathology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Undergraduate Students<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Daniela Leonardo Martinez<\/td>\n2024-2025<\/td>\nB.S. in Health Sciences<\/span><\/p>\n

B.S. Thesis: <\/span>The Home Literacy Environment & Phonological Awareness: Parental Shared Reading Practices and Their Role in Bilingual Children’s Literacy Development <\/i><\/p>\n<\/tr>\n

Tomo Curran<\/td>\n2022-2024<\/td>\nB.S. in Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Marion Bensing<\/td>\n2023-2024<\/td>\nB.S. in Health Sciences<\/span><\/p>\n

UROP: Beat Processing in Relation to Language Fundamentals Among Preschool Children<\/i><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Therese Ancheta<\/td>\n2021 – 2023<\/td>\nB.S. in Human Physiology<\/span><\/p>\n

B.S. Thesis and UROP: <\/span>Identifying<\/em> Neural Correlates of Speech Prosody in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder<\/i><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Sebastian Romani<\/td>\n2022<\/td>\nB.S. in Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences<\/span><\/p>\n

UROP:<\/i> Parent-child reading interaction in toddlerhood in relation to socioeconomic and\u00a0language status<\/i><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Ione Madsen Hardy<\/td>\n2020 – 2022<\/td>\nB.S. in Linguistics and Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

UROP: Building prosodic\u00a0profiles for pediatric\u00a0autism spectrum disorder and developmental language disorder<\/i><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Mina Cho<\/td>\n2022<\/td>\nB.S. in Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shana Kilcawley<\/td>\n2021<\/td>\nCombined B.S. in Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences and M.S. Speech-Language Pathology\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Research Staff<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Laura Doherty<\/td>\n2023<\/td>\nResearch Assistant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vai Ranganathan<\/span><\/td>\n2023<\/td>\nResearch Assistant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nivi Ravi<\/td>\n2021-2022<\/td>\nResearch Assistant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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