Congratulations to Dr. Theodore, who has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure!
Emily Opramolla submits Honors thesis
Emily Opramolla has successfully completed her Honors thesis titled “Tracking the time course of distributional learning for talker-specific phonetic variation.” You know it’s official when the Honors bell has been rung – congratulations, Emily!
Julia Drouin receives CAPCSD Ph.D. Fellowship
Congratulations to Julia Drouin, who has received the Ph.D. Fellowship from the Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders. The title of her grant is “Optimization of auditory training for cochlear implant users.” Congrats, Julia!
Nikole Giovannone joins SLaP Lab as Jorgensen Fellow
We extend a warm welcome to Nikole Giovannone, who will join the SLaP Lab as a Ph.D. student this fall. Nikole is currently an Honors scholar at Mount Holyoke College, working in the lab of Dr. Mara Breen. Nikole will join us as a Jorgensen Fellow. Recipients of the Jorgensen Fellowship represent the very best applicants to graduate programs at UConn, and we couldn’t be more excited to welcome her to our group!
Divya Ganugapati presents at Frontiers
Divya presented her SHARE project titled “Effects of talker-specific phonetic variation on voice recognition” at the 2018 Frontiers in Undergraduate Research exhibition. Well done, Divya!
Emma Hungaski presents at Frontiers
Emma presented her SURF project titled “Neural determinants of phonetic category structure in children” at the 2018 Frontiers in Undergraduate Research exhibition. Well done, Emma!
Julia Drouin completes General Exam
Congratulations to Julia Drouin, who successfully completed her general examination, in which she defended her paper on “Optimization of auditory training for cochlear implant users.” This is a major milestone on the path to the Ph.D.; next stop, the prospectus. Congrats, Julia!
M.A. defense: Stephen Graham
Stephen Graham successfully defended his M.A. thesis today. The title of his thesis is “Individual differences in distributional learning for speech: A pilot study.” Congratulations, Stephen!
Dr. Theodore to serve as Associate Editor at Language and Speech
Dr. Theodore will begin serving as an Associate Editor at Language and Speech in April 2017.
Emma Hungaski receives SURF award
Emma has received a competitive SURF award from the UConn Office for Undergraduate Research. This award will provide a stipend for Emma to work in the SLaP Lab this coming summer. Emma’s project is titled “Neural determinants of phonetic category structure in children.” Congratulations!