The Student Research Grant in Audiology supports doctoral students in communication sciences and disorders pursuing research in clinical and/or rehabilitative audiology for a proposed one-year study. The grant is supported by the Ira M. Ventry and Brad W. Friedrich Memorial Funds.
2024
Awarded $2,000 each
- Sarah Crow
- Aud/PhD Candidate
- The University of Texas at Dallas
- Mentor: Andrea Warner-Czyz
- Central Executive Functioning in Young Adults With Cochlear Implants: A Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) Study
- Katie Esser
- AuD Candidate
- Towson University
- Mentor: William Bologna
- Striving for Ecological Validity: Effects of Listener Position on Speech Recognition and Listening Effort in a Multitalker Environment
- Priya Premkumar
- PhD Candidate
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Mentor: Michelle Hughes
- Development of a Decision Aid for Single-Sided Deafness Intervention for Adults: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Study
2023
Awarded $2,000
- Serena Helman
- AuD Candidate, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Mentor: G. Nike Gnananteja
- Proposal: Evaluating the Importance of the Timescale of Fine Structure of Speech That is Important for Intelligibility in Difficult Listening Situations
- Haiping Huang
- PhD Candidate, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Mentor: Erin Picou
- Proposal: Listening Effort: Integrating Cognition With Emotion
- Talia Mango
- AuD Candidate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Mentor: Julia Drouin
- Proposal: Perceptual Learning of Speech
2022
Awarded $2,000 each
- Donguk Lee
- PhD Candidate
- The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
- Mentor: James Lewis
- Evaluation of Efferent Unmasking Using Cortical Auditory Evoked Potentials
- Laurel Money-Nolan
- PhD Candidate
- University of South Alabama
- Mentor: Ashley Flagge
- The Influence of Yoga Training on Functional and Physiological Measures of Balance
- Elizabeth Tobener
- PhD Candidate
- The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
- Mentor: Steven Doettl
- Effect of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss on Video Ocular Counter Roll Measurements
2021
Awarded $2,000
- Jani Hammit
- PhD Candidate
- Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
- Mentor: Candace Hicks
- Event-Related Potentials of Linguistic Dichotic Ability and Binaural Integration in Adults With Normal Hearing
2020
Awarded $2,000
- Caitlin Sapp
- PhD Candidate
- University of Iowa
- Mentor: Elizabeth Walker
- Audibility-Based Counseling for Parents of Children With Hearing Loss
View Student Research Grant in Audiology recipients before 2020 [PDF].