(October 2009) Ellen Crowell, AuD/PhD student was awarded the Noel D. Matkin 2009 Award from the Educational Audiology Association in the amount of $1800.  This funding will be used to complete a study of speech recognition abilities in Caucasian and African American children ages 6-13 years.

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(April, 2007) Teresa Lever, Communication Sciences and Disorders doctoral student, was awarded an American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) New Investigator Award, March 2007; awarded for scientific poster presentation at the Dysphagia Research Society 15th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada.

The mission of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association is to promote the interests of and provide the highest quality services for professionals in audiology, speech-language pathology, and speech and hearing science, and to advocate for people with communication disabilities.

Bruce Mock, a doctoral candidate for a Ph.D. in clinical Audiology in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, has received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Individual Predoctoral Fellows (F31) from the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders at NIH to support his dissertation research. The title of his project is: Functional Aging of the Inner Ear Sensory Systems in Mouse Models of Age-Related Hearing Loss (AHL). The major goals of this project are to characterize age related changes in auditory and vestibular function and compare the changes between the two sensory systems in mouse strains with different AHL genetic mutations. The work will lead to a better understanding of inner ear aging and predisposing factors (genetic and gender) for age related changes in vestibular and auditory function. The award is approximately $30,000 per year, which includes a stipend, tuition and fees, and some additional money for supplies or travel expenses. Bruce’s dissertation is under the direction of Dr. Sherri Jones.

Bruce Mock, doctoral student in Clinical Audiology in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders received a Student Investigator Research Award from the American Academy of Audiology and the American Academy of Audiology Foundation. This grant award will support Bruce's doctoral dissertation titled “Functional Aging of the Inner Ear Sensory Systems”. This research is being completed in the laboratory of Dr. Sherri Jones, Associate Professor in the department.

Rachel K. Johnson, a first-year speech-language pathology Master degree student won the North Carolina Speech-Hearing-Language Association, Student Achievement Award this past week at the North Carolina Speech-Hearing-Language Spring Convention. This award is given out each year to at student member of NCSHLA who demonstrates excellence in the field, service to the profession and commitment to NCSHLA. She also recently won the Robert A. Muzzarelli Service Scholarship from the ECU Chapter of the National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association which is given in honor of former faculty member Robert A. Muzzarelli. This scholarship, which is peer-given, is awarded to an ECU student who demonstrates outstanding service to the ECU Chapter of NSSLHA as well as the professions of speech-language pathology and audiology.

Faculty

Dr. Marianna Walker, of Communication Sciences and Disorders, received the 2005-2006 Teacher of the Year Award for outstanding teaching in the residency training program of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Brody School of Medicine.

Andrew Stuart has received the prestigious 2005-2006 East Carolina University Scholar-Teacher Award. This award recognizes significant contributions to research and scholarship and the integration of these areas into teaching. Dr. Stuart joins an exemplary group of faculty who lead by example, not only by integrating scholarship and teaching but also by mentoring other faculty and students. The ECU Scholar-Teacher Award celebrates this synergy between scholarship and teaching.