Ruth Litovsky, Ph.D. - Director
BHSL at 2026 Summer Special Olympics! The Binaural Hearing and Speech Lab volunteered the 2026 State Summer Olympics at University Wisconsin- White Water. We had the lovely opportunity to meet and participate with the amazing athletes who competed this year! Our Research Specialists Stephanie Selner and Eva Walsh were able to volunteer as referees for …
The UW–Madison Postdoctoral Association awards Dr. Aditi Gargeshwari the Postdoc Excellence Awards to for her excellence in mentoring, teaching, and service. Dr. Garageshwari is a 3rd year Postdoc in the Binaural Hearing and Speech Lab and has mentored many graduate and undergraduate students in EEG and auditory research. Her dedication to both research and teaching …
Congratulations to BHSL doctoral student Didulani Dantanarayana for receiving the Travel Award from Acoustical Society of America (ASA)! Didulani presented her student travel award session at the 190th annual ASA. The session titled “Blossoming Sciences and Cultivating Researchers in Psychological and Physiological Acoustics” focused on her dissertation work on speech recognition, spatial release from masking, …
Congratulations to Aditi! She participated in the campus-wide Blitz Talk Competition at the 10th Annual UW–Madison Postdoctoral Research Symposium, held in celebration of Postdoc Appreciation Week (September 15–19, 2025). Aditi won the People’s Choice Award and a cash prize for her Blitz Talk on evaluating the neural processes for binaural cues. The picture was taken …
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 is having a significant impact on auditory science and clinical practice, with the promise of continued impact over the rest …
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!
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 …
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 the field of acoustics. The fellowship was established by the Society to carry out Professor Hunt’s wish that his estate …
The program for the 10th annual Midwest Conference on Cochlear Implants can be found here: CRASH schedule
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, B.S. Congratulations graduates!!! Tanvi Thakkar was featured on the UW-Madison 2019 Commencement photo gallery along with lab director Ruth Litovsky. …