Lab Members

Aayush’s Research Scholarship

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Aayush Sharma, our Senior RA, was awarded a $6000 Undergraduate Research Scholarship Undergraduate Research Scholarship by OSU’s College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program. Aayush’s research proposal was selected from a truly excellent
group of submissions, and his selection indicates the committee’s confidence in his ability to complete a significant research project as a prelude to his post-graduate studies and career. With this award, Aayush has been recognized as a person who has the potential to make a substantial contribution to research. Congratulations, Aayush!

Jessie’s Thesis Project

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Today, Jessie Lewis successfully defended her Master’s Thesis titled “The impact of neurocognitive skills on degraded sentence recognition.” Jessie’s thesis was presented (via Zoom) in partial fulfillment of the requirements for her PhD. On her thesis committee sat Aaron Moberly, MD and Christina Roup, PhD. Congratulations on your hard work, Jessie! 💪🏻

Undergraduate Thesis Defense

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Round of applause to Jillian Harrington for a fantastic thesis defense! 🎉

It was the culmination of 2 years worth of a lot of hard work and late nights, but it paid off tenfold 🥇 Her committee members noted that her thesis was a “pleasure to read and listen to,” “very interesting,” and contained “exciting research with a lot of things to think about.” We’re very proud of Jillian’s grit, mentoring of junior RAs, writing/speaking skills, and ability to answer difficult questions!

Join us in congratulating Jillian on graduating this Spring semester with Honors! 🏆

 

CogFest 2019

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The Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences at OSU hosted it’s annual conference, CogFest, March 24-25th. Each year CogFest invites faculty, students, and community members to explore questions related to human cognition from behavioral, applied, computational modeling, and cognitive neuroscience perspectives. Two of our undergraduate RAs, Julianne Peacock and Gina Vivino, presented their research project examining “Are all directives bad? A look into how maternal linguistic input may serve to bootstrap socially appropriate behavior.” Round of applause for their fantastic work!

Julianne and Gina

In action!

Undergraduate Research Scholarship Competition

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OSU’s College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program has awarded one of our students, Jillian Harrington, an Undergraduate Research Scholarship / International Research Grant for research she’s conducting in our laboratory. Jillian’s selection indicates the committee’s confidence in her ability to complete a significant research project as a prelude to her post-graduate studies and career.

New Grad Student

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We are excited to announce that Jessie Lewis has joined the lab as a new Graduate Research Associate. Jessie is working towards completing her PhD and clinical AuD in Audiology. Stay tuned for her many upcoming accomplishments!

New Lab Member

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We are excited to announce that Natalie Safdar has joined the lab as a new Graduate Research Associate. Natalie will be beginning her Doctor of Audiology (AuD) studies at The Ohio State University in the fall term.