(July 1, 2013-June 30, 2014) Dr. Elizabeth Hibberd * Dr. Walter Palmer * Dr. Ashley Freuler * Dr. Heather Fritz * Dr. Emily Furgang * Dr. Sumita Rege

New Faculty Dr. William Hoole joined the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences faculty as an Assistant Professor in January 2014. Dr. Hoole earned his BS from Middle Tennessee State University in 2001 and his AuD from UNC in 2007. In addition to serving patients at the UNC Hearing and Communication Center, his academic responsibilities … Read more

The Carolina Center for Public Service has awarded a Community Engagement Fellowship to an interdisciplinary team of student researchers from the Department of Allied Health Sciences: Tyson Harmon (PhD student in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences), Mei-Ling Lin (PhD student in the Division of Occupational Science), and Gabrielle Scronce (DPT student in the Division of Physical Therapy).

Three Health Sciences Library (HSL) librarians and Lori Leibold, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Allied Health Sciences, successfully earned funding for a National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Library of Medicine (NLM) Administrative Supplement.

The 2014 Mitchell Symposium public lecture, “Occupational Activism for Global Justice,” by Dr. Gelya Frank, PhD, is now available online.

The Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences hosted the 2014 David E. Yoder Symposium on March 28 at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill. The all-day session, titled “Combining Literacy and Language Intervention of Young Children,” was led by Dr. Laura Justice, Executive Director of the Children’s Learning Research Collaborative and EHE Distinguished Professor at The Ohio State University.

We’re only half way through academic year 2013-2014 and already there are several noteworthy accomplishments!

When she’s not running half-marathons in Alaska or playing with her Black Lab mix, Speech and Hearing Sciences doctoral candidate Jennie Zoski is working to combine her passions for literacy and language with her love of children.

As I begin my tenure as Associate Dean and Chair for the Department of Allied Health Sciences (DAHS), I am truly excited about the future. My arrival could not have gone better, thanks in part to an extremely thoughtful welcoming event on January 7 (Thanks to all involved!).

Dr. Nancy Bagatell, Associate Professor, has received a Junior Faculty Development Award worth $7,500 to fund research. The pilot project, called “Families with Adolescent-Aged Children and the Co-construction and Re-negotiation of Occupations and Routines: Investigating Methods to Capture Transactions of Families,” seeks to study the routines and occupations of families with adolescents to discover how and why these routines change over time.