Shantelle Cannon was awarded an F32 from the National Institutes of Health to study the impacts of vestibular and auditory function on spatiotemporal gait characteristics and spatial navigation for her dissertation.
Natalie Freitag, 2nd year MA/ PhD student in Dr. Stacy Harnish's lab, has been awarded the H. Dean and Susan Regis Gibson award from the Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Brain Imaging. The Gibson Research Award is presented to one or two students based on academic excellence and the merits of their brain imaging research proposal. Natalie is researching how the connectivity of language-specific brain regions relates to language processing and picture-naming in people with aphasia. Her project, 'Functional connectivity and orthographic cueing for anomia,' aims to improve clinical decision-making for aphasia treatment.
Natalie also received the Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences (CCBS) Summer Graduate Research Award. She will be collecting data for her master's thesis under the supervision of Dr. Harnish. Visit CCBS for more details about this program as well as previous awardees.
Erika Hagen was selected for a summer internship within the US Dept of Education Research to Practice Division of the Office of Special Education Program. Erika’s dissertation examines early childhood providers’ knowledge and practice in supporting young children with traumatic brain injury.
Courtney Jewell won 3rd place in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Oral/Talk section of the 39th Annual Edward F. Hayes Advanced Research Forum with her talk titled, "Tracking Stress in People with Aphasia: Insights from Ecological Momentary Assessments."
