Two local high school students, Aurora and Isai, joined CCANDL this summer for the “The National Student Speech Language Hearing Association (NSSLHA) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Research Internship”! During their time with the lab, they have been busy observing Speech Language Pathology and Audiology sessions, touring other research labs, and assisting with many research projects within CCANDL. …
CCANDL’s very own Erin Bruehlman (alongside Audiology doctoral student Felicia Herlevi) received an $8,000 award from the UW-Madison Green Fund Program! Their application explored the effects of direct light and calculated solar heat gain impacts on heating and air conditioning costs at Goodnight Hall. The award will be used to install new window blinds in …
CCANDL lab member, Madeline Hale, is a recipient of the 2022 Emma Allen Fellowship Award. This fellowship is awarded annually by the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders to fund up to $1,000 for research expenditures or travel to professional conferences. Madeline will use the fellowship to attend the 2022 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference to …
Madeline was one of 3 students to receive the NSSLHA endowed scholarship this year. This scholarship was created specifically for undergraduate senior students with active National NSSLHA memberships who would be entering graduate study in the Fall 2021 semester. Congratulations, Madeline!! For more information on the NSSLHA ASHFoundation Graduate Student Scholarship, check out this website: https://www.ashfoundation.org/apply/graduate-student-scholarship/.
CCANDL is excited to announce that it is now Green Lab certified! Over the summer of 2021, the lab assessed its energy use, waste streams, and purchasing. Then it implemented many different tools and shared what was learned about sustainability with all of its members in order to understand the impacts of its practices and …
CCANDL is thrilled as Elizabeth Evans’ paper Preliminary assessment of connected speech and language as marker for cognitive change in late middle-aged Black/African American adults at risk for Alzheimer’s disease has been published in Routledge’s Aphasiology. Her paper is one of the few of it’s kind to be published on this subject, and Evans’ work is …
CCANDL’s Hannah Belay’s abstract, Communication Behaviors that Manifest as Episodes of Lucidity in Persons Living with Dementia: A Scoping Review, was selected for a lightening presentation at the 2021 UW-Madison Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Research Day. Hannah will pre-record her presentation as one of four lighting presenters and is the only undergraduate student selected …
CCANDL is proud to announce that graduate research assistant and student clinician, Elizabeth Evans, was nominated for the UW System Board of Regents’ 2021 Diversity Award. (Link to the announcement here). “These awards recognize individuals and programs that foster access and success for students who are members of historically underrepresented populations”. Evans was the only …
CCANDL’s Principal Investigator Dr. Kimberly Mueller Ph.D., CCC-SLP, has received an R01 grant from the NIH for her project entitled, Novel Story Recall Measures as Indicators of Cognitive Decline Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Biomarkers: A Collaborative Study of Existing Data. This grant will be used to employ existing data from three cohort …
Dr. Kimberly Mueller is looking for a full-time Research Coordinator to join the Cognitive-Communication in Aging and Neurogenic Disorders Laboratory. This position will be responsible for performing data collection and analysis, oversight of participant recruitment, management of lab finances (purchases, reimbursements, etc.), and additional administrative responsibilities. Depending on experience, the position may also entail designing …