New Century Scholars Research Grant Recipients

The New Century Scholars Research Grant supports innovative research by individuals who are committed to teacher-investigator careers in the university or college academic environment or in external research institutes or laboratories.

2022

Awarded $25,000 each

Sabrina Horvath: Assistant Professor; Medical University of South Carolina; Syntactic Bootstrapping in Late Talkers

Erin Kamarunas: Associate Professor; James Madison University; Predictive Value of Oral Sensory Perception on Dysphagia; Swallowing Research Fund

Çagla Kantarcigil: Research Assistant Professor; Northwestern University; Examining the Impact of Haptic Cues on Swallowing Frequency in Patients with Parkinson's Disease

Eun Jin Paek: Assistant Professor; The University of Tennessee Health Science Center; Behavioral Outcomes and Neural Correlates of a Multifactorial Treatment Approach in Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type

2021

Awarded $25,000 each

Kim R. Bauerly: Assistant Professor; University of Vermont; The Effects of Attentional Focus on Speech Motor Control in Adults Who Stutter With and Without Social Evaluative Threat

Marika King: Assistant Professor; Utah State University; Bilingual Codeswitching Using Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Panying Rong: Assistant Professor; University of Kansas; A Novel Multimodal Framework for Automated Objective Evaluation of Speech Impairment in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Yagmur Seven: Postdoctoral Researcher; University of Kansas; Development and Initial Validation of the Family Need Assessment Survey

Alan Wisler: Assistant Professor; Utah State University; Validation and Toolkit Development for Non-Linear Kinematic Speech Stability Measures

2020

Awarded $25,000 each

Brittan A. Barker: Assistant Professor; Utah State University; Linking Parents’ Stories to Health Outcomes: Working Toward a Narrative Intervention Helping Parents to Cope With the Impact of Their Children’s Cochlear Implantation

Danai Kasambira Fannin: Associate Professor; North Carolina Central University; Contextual Factors Affecting Identification of Rural African American Children With Autism

Sung-Joo Lim: Research Assistant Professor; Boston University; Neural Systems for Attentional Control in Speech Processing

Yonghee Oh: Assistant Professor; University of Florida; Effects of Steady Background Noise on Segregation of Speech Based on Voice Pitch Differences in Hearing Impaired Listeners

2019

Awarded $25,000 each

Pasquale Bottalico: Assistant Professor; University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign; Classroom Acoustics for Enhancing Students' Understanding When a Teacher Suffers From Voice Problems

Frances Sayako Earle: Assistant Professor; University of Delaware; The Use of Polysomnography to Track Perceptual Memory Consolidation in Adults With Developmental Language Impairment

Jennifer Mozeiko: Assistant Professor; University of Connecticut; Quantifying Communication in the Home Environments of People With Aphasia

Ignatius S. Nip: Associate Professor; San Diego State University; Quantifying Tongue Movement After Radiation Therapy in Patients With Oropharyngeal Cancer

2018

Awarded $25,000 each

Sriram Boothalingam: Assistant Professor; University of Wisconsin–Madison; One Stone, Three Birds: A Concurrent Clinical Test of Cochlear, Middle Ear Muscle Reflex, and Medial Olivocochlear Reflex Function; Support provided by the Wayne and Marilyn Olsen Audiology Research Fund

Elizabeth Erickson DiRenzo: Assistant Professor; Stanford University; Development of Model Systems to Investigate the Laryngeal Health Effects of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS)

Hua Ou: Visiting Assistant Professor; Wayne State University; Will Optimized Written Instructions be as Effective as Audiological Service for OTC Hearing Device Users?

Stephanie Ries-Cornou: Assistant Professor; San Diego State University; Word Retrieval in Spanish-English Bilinguals After Stroke

View New Century Scholars Research Grant recipients before 2018 [PDF].