Month: October 2020

Michelle Ciucci, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, received a $3.2 million NIH R01 grant for her project, “Preclinical trial for dysarthria treatment in Parkinson disease,” beginning this December. Parkinson disease causes significant communication problems that negatively affect quality …

We are thrilled to be profiling emeritus Communication Sciences and Disorders faculty members in October and November! Today we profile Emeritus Clinical Professor Ted Tweed. Following retirement from the department in 1992, Tweed spent a …

We are thrilled to be profiling emeritus Communication Sciences and Disorders faculty members in October and November! Today, our spotlight shines on emeritus professor Michael Chial, Ph.D.! Following retirement from UW-Madison in 2006, Professor Chial …

Rebecca Willer recently received the $5,000 Graduate Student Scholarship from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASHFoundation). This program is designed to support full-time students who will be or who are currently enrolled in a graduate program …

Jesse Hoffmeister, M.S., CCC-SLP, recently received the $10,000 New Century Doctoral Scholarship from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASHFoundation). This program is designed to support strong doctoral candidates who will pursue a teacher-investigator career in an …

We are thrilled to be profiling emeritus Communication Sciences and Disorders faculty members in October and November! Today we are highlighting Jamie Murray-Branch, Clinical Faculty Emeritus. To our current clinical students, Jamie says, “Over the …

We are thrilled to be profiling emeritus Communication Sciences and Disorders faculty members in October and November! Today we are profiling emeritus professor Gary Weismer, Ph.D. A fun memory Dr. Weismer cited from his time …

If you’ve ever seen a graphical representation of a sound, you are probably familiar with what it looks like: hundreds of steep, tightly packed peaks and valleys, all of different heights, moving above and below a common line of symmetry that cuts horizontally through the middle…

We are thrilled to be profiling emeritus Communication Sciences and Disorders faculty members in October and November! First up: Professor Emerita Robin Chapman. Her advice for current clinical students? “Your skills in therapy will be …

Courtney Broadfoot, M.S., CCC-SLP, recently received the $10,000 New Century Doctoral Scholarship from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASHFoundation). This program is designed to support strong doctoral candidates who will pursue a teacher-investigator career in an …