Congratulations to Janet Park, this year’s Outstanding Support Staff, and to Henrike Blumenfeld, this year’s Outstanding Undergraduate Professor!

The full list of this award recipients appears below:

• Outstanding Undergraduate Student:
  Allie Raimondo, Public Health
• Outstanding Graduate Student:
  Leticia Rodriguez, Social Work
• Outstanding Undergraduate Professor:
  Henrike Blumenfeld, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
• Outstanding Graduate Professor:
  Elva Arredondo, Public Health
• Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor:
  Virginia Kreisworth, Public Health
• Outstanding Club:
  Latino Student Social Work Association (LSSWA)
• Outstanding Club Advisor:
  Sherry Kari, MS, RN, CNM, California Student Nurses’ Association
• Outstanding Support Staff:
  Janet Park, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
• Embodiment Award:
  Douglas Dalay, Social Work
• President’s Award:
  Julia Jaroslawski, Nursing

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On April 19th and April 26th, our annual Spring Symposium will take place here at SDSU.

• April 19 – Cara Dunaway presents “Language Intervention with Identified Students, K-12:  What Really Matters?”

• April 26 – Liza Blumenfled presents “Tracheostomy and Ventilator Management strategies for the Medical Speech-Language Pathologist”

A total of 6 CPDs are offered.

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• Spring Symposium Details & Registration

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Congratulations, Dr. Emmorey!

See the attached letter from  Stephen Welter, SDSU Vice President of Research and Dean of Graduate Affairs:

To: SDSU Faculty and Staff

From: Stephen Welter, Vice President of Research and Dean of Graduate Affairs

Subject: 2013 A.W. Johnson Research Lecture

On behalf of the University Research Council and the Office of Graduate and Research Affairs, I am delighted to announce that Dr. Karen Emmorey has been selected to present the 23rd Albert W. Johnson Research Lecture for her outstanding contributions as a scientist, mentor and campus leader.

Dr. Emmorey, Professor of Speech, Language and Hearing Science and Director of San Diego State University’s Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience will deliver her presentation titled “The signing brain: What sign languages reveal about human language and the brain”, on Friday, March 15, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in AL 201. The lecture is open to the university community and to the public, free of charge. Seating is limited, however, and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

The University Research Lecture Series is sponsored by Graduate and Research Affairs and the University Research Council in recognition of SDSU faculty who make outstanding research and teaching contributions.

Dr. Emmorey started her career at SDSU as a Professor in 2005, after serving as a senior researcher at the Salk Institute. Dr. Emmorey has been described as “one of the top linguistic researchers in the world” by her colleagues. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, Dr. Emmorey has used American Sign Language as a means to better understand language acquisition and to reveal the fundamental cognitive and neural bases of language. By contrasting the processes of sign and vocal languages, Dr. Emmorey has provided seminal insights into how and where languages are stored or processed in our brains, and how information is conveyed or reinforced by visual and auditory feedback loops. And, through neural imaging, she has explored the changes in neural structure and function associated with vocal and visual based languages.

These insights have contributed to the development of clinical practices to address communication disorders due to brain injury or disease and to improve educational practices for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. When I asked her to identify the accomplishment of which she was most proud, she did not single out one specific finding, discovery or application that would point back just to her. Instead, she spoke about the breadth of approaches in her laboratory and the people that she had assembled there to take on the many intellectual challenges of language studies.

Her scholarship, spanning the five research areas of bimodal bilingualism, cognitive neuroscience, language cognition, phonetics, and psycholinguistics, has produced over 100 academic articles and four books. Her work has been funded continuously since her arrival on campus by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, with her current funding for this fiscal year at $2.5 million. Since her arrival in 2005, she has directed, as principal investigator, over $10 million dollars of federal grant funding.

Dr. Emmorey is a highly sought after speaker with 14 invited and keynote scientific lectures at national and international meetings over the past two years alone. Since 2001, she has been a member of the editorial board for several journals, currently serving on three. She has beenrecognized nationally, as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as on our own campus, winning a Monty award for outstanding faculty contributions and as an exceptional mentor for doctoral students.

Perhaps the best way to summarize Dr. Emmorey’s work is to quote from one of her letters of nomination which stated that she is “the sort of investigator who exemplifies the ‘silo-breaking’ research we are striving for” at SDSU.

I would like to invite you, your students, and the community to participate in this year’s lecture program presented by one of our most outstanding faculty members.

 

Ignatius Nip uses motion-capture to study cerebral palsy

Dr. Nip and his current work with children with cerebral palsy was recently featured on SDSU’s Newscenter.

Dr. Nip is examining the interaction between facial movements and speech-language development in these children using the same motion capture technology that transfers actors expressions to computer-generated film characters.  His research lab is similar to a movie set. Eight cameras cross two walls, all focused on the seated participant. Approximately 15 reflective markers are placed on the child or adolescent’s face, including the lips and jaw.

• See the full article at SDSU Newscenter!

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The CSU Mentor application deadline is December 15th, 2012.

Pictured are SLHS joint doctoral program students Stephanie DeAnda, Shannon MacKenzie, Kristen Secora, Samantha Engel, Dorothy Yang, Natalie Sullivan, Lara Polse, Roberto Gutierrez, Jonathan Udoff, Stephanie DeAnda, Michelle Ferrill, Amy Pace, Erica Ellis, Philip Lai, Hanna Gelfand, and Marisa Sizemore.

Also, see all the student abstracts (pdf)!

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Jessica Barlow displays her Faculty ‘Monty’ award

Our own Jessica Barlow was presented with the 2012 Faculty Monty at the All-University Convocation on August 23, 2012.  Each year, one outstanding faculty member from each of the university’s colleges is recognized for their outstanding contributions.

Dr. Barlow is a professor and the graduate advisor to the masters program in speech-language pathology and a member of the faculty of the SDSU/UCSD joint doctoral program in language and communication disorders.  Barlow is a nationally known researcher whose work directly benefits children and language disorders.  Her lab has been established for 15 years and aspects of her research have been supported by the National Institutes of Health.  She is a well respected researcher, teacher and mentor.

• Read about all the winners at SDSU NewsCenter!

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Dr. Torre with undergraduate Issac Garza

Dr. Peter Torre, III, is an Associate Professor of Audiology with the school. His areas of specialization include epidemiology of age-related hearing loss, auditory evoked potentials, and research methods.

See the current faculty page to find out more about Dr. Peter Torre, III, and all of our faculty members.

The young tradition continues! On Saturday, May 5, 2012, the Second Annual White Coat Picnic convened at the home of audiology professor Dr. Lori Dreisbach-Hawe and her husband Bill. Hosting nearly 70 students, family members, and friends, attendance was double that of last year’s event. It was again a spectacular tasting of Mexican appetizers, entrées, and luscious desserts in keeping with the Cinco de Mayo holiday. Under the direction of Chef Lori, sous-chef Bill slaved over the outdoor grill to provide the filling for an abundance of chicken tacos. Dr. Kramer again showed his culinary skills with cheese enchiladas. Olé!

The highlight of the afternoon was the white-coat award ceremony. Each third-year student received a white coat embroidered with his or her name and the professional designation “audiologist.” All begin their fourth and last year of training (externship) in various medical settings. We wish them all an outstanding year of learning, and we look forward to seeing them back here at next year’s graduation. Congratulations and best wishes!

• Allison: Veterans Administration Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA
• Amanda: Providence Speech & Hearing, Orange County, CA
• Anja: Shohet Ear Associates, Orange County, CA
• Collyn: California Ear Institute, Palo Alto, CA
• Emily: Veterans Administration Healthcare System, San Diego, CA
• Imola: Orange County Physicians Hearing Services, Mission Viejo, CA
• Lauren: Veterans Administration Healthcare System, Phoenix, AZ
• Robin: Veterans Administration Healthcare System, San Diego, CA
• Stephani: Veterans Administration Healthcare System, San Diego, CA
• Stephanie: Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital, Palo Alto, CA
• Tom: Pacific Hearing Service, Claremont, CA

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• Cable (Year 4; graduating 2012): Education: Improving Collaboration between the Fields of Nursing and Audiology at SDSU. Chair: Peter Torre, III, PhD (SDSU. Committee Members: Erika Zettner, PhD (UCSD); Jessica Barlow, PhD (SDSU).
• Hu (Year 4; graduating 2012): Ocular Vestibular-Evoked Myogenic Potentials Response Variability in Normal Subjects. Chair: Erika Zettner, PhD (UCSD). Committee: Steve Kramer, PhD (SDSU); Steven Hillyard, PhD (UCSD).
• MacPhee (Year 3, graduating 2013):The Effect of Competition Type and Hearing Loss on Psychophysiological Measures, Performance and Subjective Ratings of Task Load. Chair: Carol Mackersie, PhD (SDSU). Committee Members: Quyen Nguyen, MD, PhD (UCSD); Lewis Shapiro, PhD (SDSU).

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