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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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...