Congratulations to Au.D./Ph.D. student Soumya Venkitakrishnan for winning a Graduate College Summer Fellowship for Summer 2020.

Jeong-Seo Kim, doctoral candidate, won the 2020 CAPCSD PhD Scholarship and will receive a monetary award to help support the completion of her PhD program.

Caitlin Sapp won the 2020 Plural Research Scholarship Award for a student in a PhD program and will receive a financial award to support her dissertation research on “Meaningful Audibility Counseling for Parents of Children with Hearing Loss.”

Bianca Robles-Muñoz, a Speech and Hearing Science major, has been selected to participate in the prestigious Big Ten Academic Alliance Summer Research Opportunities Program.

Yu-Hsiang Wu and his colleagues were honored with the Ear and Hearing Editor’s Award for the publication, Efficacy and Effectiveness of Advanced Hearing Aid Directional and Noise Reduction Technologies for Older Adults With Mild to Moderate Hearing Loss in Ear and Hearing, 40(4):805-822).

Iowa's CSD faculty and grad students participated in ISHA Advocacy Day, an opportunity to join together with colleagues across the state on behalf of the profession and Iowa's patient population.