Ruth Litovsky, Ph.D. - Director
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. …
Emily Burg, AuD/PhD student in the BHSL has been awarded the Emma Allen Fellowship Award from the CSD Department to support her participation in the 2020 Speech in Noise Workshop in taking place next winter. The workshop’s aim is to bring together young investigators and senior faculty from hearing-research groups to stimulate networking, discussion of …
Emily Burg, an Au.D./Ph.D. student in the Litovsky lab, was awarded the Wisconsin Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Association 2019 “Friends of WSHA Foundation” scholarship for $1500! This annual scholarship is sponsored by various WSHA members and related colleagues who care deeply about the discipline of communication sciences and disorders and the success of the students …
Learn about advances in research and clinical services and hear from a panel of experts, individuals with cochlear implants, and family members at the 7th Annual Waisman Center Day with Experts: Cochlear Implants. The event will take place on June 2nd from 9:00am-12:15pm at the Waisman Center. For more details and to register, please click …
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 to everyone who stopped by!
BHSL director, Ruth Litovsky, PhD, gave a press release on Tuesday May 8th, 2018 at the 175th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America regarding the lab’s research on synchronizing cochlear implant signals between ears. She also gave a talk at the conference titled “Restoring binaural and spatial hearing in cochlear implant users.” Watch the …
Emily Burg, Au.D. student in the BHSL, received a James and Susan Jerger Award for Excellence in Student Research at the 2018 American Academy of Audiology Conference in Nashville, TN this April. The research poster explored cognitive load in normal hearing individuals listening to cochlear implant simulations using pupillometry (the measure of pupil dilation) to …
Tanvi Thakkar, PhD student in the BHSL has been awarded the Emma Allen Fellowship Award from the CSD Department to support her participation in the 2018 Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop in Colorado this coming July. The workshop’s aim is “to bring the organizing principles of neural cognition into machine intelligence, and to use lessons …
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 Kellett award recognizes outstanding faculty seven to twenty years past their first promotion to a tenured position. The award honors …
Lab members traveled to the golden state for the 2018 Association for Research in Otolaryngology conference last week. Ellen Peng, Thibaud Leclère, and Sean Anderson (pictured above) gave talks, and Tanvi Thakkar presented a poster.