Ruth Litovsky, our lab director, was honored at the 2021 meeting of the American Auditory Society with the Carhart Memorial Lecture. The Carhart Award is the American Auditory Society’s recognition of those whose current research …
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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 …
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 …
BHSL postdoc Ela Warnecke awarded prestigious Frederick V. Hunt Research Fellowship
Ela Warnecke was awarded the 2020 Acoustical Society of America’s Frederick V. Hunt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Acoustics. This is a prestigious fellowship offered once a year to a promising postdoc doing exciting work in …
2019 CI CRASH talk schedule is here!
The program for the 10th annual Midwest Conference on Cochlear Implants can be found here: CRASH schedule
Congratulations BHSL Graduates!!
Several members of the BHSL added some letters to their names this spring: Tanvi Thakkar, Ph.D. Sara Misurelli, Ph.D., Au.D. Ela Warnecke, Ph.D. McKenzie Klein, M.S. SLP Yien Xu, B.S. Molly Beier, B.S. Alyssa Wciorka, …
BHSL booth at 2018 UW Science Expeditions
Members of the BHSL volunteered to participate at the 2018 UW Science Expeditions event to educate the Madison community about the auditory system and hearing through cochlear implants. It was a blast! Big thank you …
Ruth Litovsky, Ph.D., Receives 2018 University of Wisconsin Kellett Mid-Career Faculty Research Award
Ruth Litovsky, Ph.D., Director of the Binaural Hearing and Speech Lab and professor in Communication Sciences and Disorders, has been named a recipient of the 2018 University of Wisconsin Kellett Mid-Career Faculty Research Award. The …
Taylor Fields presents research at press briefing in London
Ph.D. student Taylor Fields was selected to present her research titled “Self-reported hearing loss, cognitive performance, and risk for mild cognitive impairment: Findings from the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention” at the Alzheimer’s Association International …
Lab members attend the Conference on Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication in Linkoping, Sweden
Lab members Jasenia Hartman and Taylor Fields traveled to Linkoping, Sweden to present their research at the 2017 “Conference on Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication.” Jasenia’s talk was titled “The effect of degraded auditory input …