University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: May 2020

Medical student Gabe Sobczak awarded the American Otological Society research grant

Medical student Gabe Sobczak was awarded the American Otological Society Research Foundation Fellowship. This prestigious fellowship provides one-year of research funding for medical students, medical residents, or PhD candidates. Gabe will be investigating cortical representations of binaural hearing and spatial release from masking in normal hearing listeners and listeners with simulated single-sided deafness. Congratulations Gabe!

Undergraduate student Liberty Moore awarded Hilldale Research Fellowship

Liberty Moore, and undergraduate student in the BHSL, was awarded the Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship which gives undergraduate students the opportunity to undertake their own research with UW-Madison faculty. The proposed project is titled “Using optical imaging to investigate auditory attention in cochlear implant listeners with single-sided deafness,” and will investigate how these individuals distribute …