Four first-year LEND AuD students brought home a blue ribbon in the student poster category at the national Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) conference in Denver, Colorado. The poster was titled: “Screening, Diagnosis, and Audiologic Management of Children with Significant Cognitive Disabilities,” It summarized the first part of a larger project inspired by the … Read more
Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences PhD student Nicole Corbin received the 2018 Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders (CAPCSD) PhD scholarship. The scholarship provides $20,000, to support the completion of the PhD program. Corbin’s dissertation project is titled “Spatial Hearing and Functional Auditory Skills in Children with Unilateral Hearing Loss.” She … Read more
It is such a pleasure to send greetings and warm wishes to all of you. The 2017-18 academic year was exciting and productive. It was also a year of change within the division. We welcomed Drs. Lindsey Byom and Hannah Siburt as members of the faculty. We also hosted a retirement celebration for Dr. Melody … Read more
The Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences’ Nancy Quick, PhD, is a recipient of the 2018 Impact Award, granted by the Graduate School. Nancy Quick, who recently graduated with a PhD from the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, has received the Impact Award from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Graduate School. … Read more
The North Carolina Speech Hearing and Language Association has recognized two UNC-Chapel Hill speech-language Pathology students with prestigious awards. Margaret “Gretta” Richter received the NCSHLA Linguisystems Award. She is a graduate student in the SLP program at UNC-Chapel Hill who is an active member of the American Academy of Audiology, American Auditory Society, and NCSHLA. She is currently working as … Read more
An article by fourth-year audiology student Emily Spitzer was recently published in the October 2017 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Audiology. Emily R. Spitzer, a fourth-year audiology student in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, was published in the October 2017 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of … Read more