News
Our faculty, students, alumni, and staff are making a difference through their scholarship, teaching, and service. Learn more about their successes, publications, and impact.
Our faculty, students, alumni, and staff are making a difference through their scholarship, teaching, and service. Learn more about their successes, publications, and impact.
Find News
Active Filters
- Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
- Sciences Spotlight
Back for Her Ph.D., Alumna Finds Promise in a New Field
Cognitive Neuroscience master’s grad finds appeal in the research and career possibilities of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences.
Science Faculty Spotlight: Jason Bishop
Meet a Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences professor who specializes in prosodic processing and aspects of speech production and perception.
Science Alumni Spotlight: Jet Vonk
Vonk, a specialist in dementia and aging, is taking on a faculty position at the University of California San Francisco and realizing her career ambitions.
'One Hell of a Learning Experience': How COVID Nearly Upended a Student’s Dissertation Research
By Bonnie Eissner Graduate Center Ph.D. candidate Iris Strangmann (Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences) was preparing to collect data for her dissertation on how bilingual people switch between languages, or code-switch, when New York’s pandemic-induced shutdown foiled her plans. Like many fellow doctoral...
Science Student Spotlight: Bernadette Ojukwu
Bernadette Ojukwu is currently a sixth-year, second level doctoral candidate in CUNY Graduate Center’s Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences program. She is a graduate from the University of Massachusetts, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology. Before becoming a doctoral...
Science Faculty Spotlight: Michelle MacRoy-Higgins
What is your academic background? I went to SUNY Geneseo for my Bachelor’s degree; I received a B.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders, as well as my New York State teaching certification as a Teacher of Students with Speech and...
Science Student Spotlight: Rion Iwasaki
Rion Iwasaki is a third-year, level II student in the Ph.D. Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at the Graduate Center (GC), CUNY. He is a member of Speech Production, Acoustics, and Perception Laboratory (SPAPL), directed by his Ph.D. adviser, Dr. Douglas...
Science Alumni Spotlight: Jan Edwards
Affiliations: University of Maryland, Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences Professor Edwards received the distinguished alumni award at the Graduate Center Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences Annual Alumni Event on March 15, 2019. She sat down with Thorfun Gehebe, a current...
Science Student Spotlight: Richard Lissemore
Richard Lissemore is a doctoral candidate in the Speech Production, Acoustics, & Perception Laboratory directed by Dr. Douglas Whalen, of the Ph.D. program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences. Additionally, he is a student associate at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, CT, where...
Science Alumni Spotlight: Sara Basson
The career of Speech Scientist Dr. Sara Basson does the Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences proud. She currently holds a position created for her at Google: Accessibility Evangelist. She is responsible for creating programs and technical applications to improve access for...