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Hearing Health Foundation reception

The Hearing Health Foundation (HHF) hosted a cocktail reception at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, which was recently held at the Renaissance Hotel in Orlando, FL.  Drs. Masapollo and Nittrouer attended the event to network and talk science with other auditory researchers from across the…

PHHP Research Day

UF undergrads, Kayleigh Burge, Ana Rodriguez, and Abigail Lebedeker, presented results at the annual College of Public Health and Health Professions Research Day.  Their poster reported on joint work with Dr. Susan Nittrouer, funded by the Hearing Health Foundation, examining the role of auditory feedback on speech motor coordination and…

DEI Article in Hearing Health Magazine

PI Masapollo recently wrote an article for the Winter 2023 issue of Hearing Health Magazine on DEI issues/initiatives in the UF Speech Communication Laboratory. Read it on hhf.org/magazine now with a…

EMA at USF

With generous support from the University of South Florida (USF), CSD researchers, Drs. Nathan Maxfield, Catherine Rogers, and David Eddins, recently purchased and installed a Carstens AG501 electromagnetic articulography (EMA) system. Dr. Masapollo is helping the USF scientists to create the new lab and get EMA off the ground in…

Dr. Masapollo & Jessica present at ASA

UF undergrad, Jessica Goel (class of 2023 biomedical engineering major), presented the results of her honors thesis project (in collaboration with Cynthia Yoonjeong Lee at UCLA/Michigan and Ratree Wayland at UF Linguistics) at the Fall 2022 Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, which was held at the Grand Hyatt…

Carstens visits UF

Carstens Medizinelektronik GmbH, which has been building electromagnetic articulography (EMA) systems for over 30 years in support of speech production research, recently visited the UF Speech Communication Lab to install a new sensor bank.  This will boost the recording capacity of UF’s AG501 EMA system from eight to sixteen channels.

2022 ASHA Convention

Last week, PI Masapollo and his colleagues presented two posters at the 2022 ASHA Convention, held in New Orleans, LA.  Dr. Masapollo’s senior colleagues and collaborators, Drs. Susan Nittrouer, Emily Plowman, and Adam Buchwald, also received distinguished career awards. Masapollo, M., & Nittrouer, S. (2022). Spatiotemporal orchestration of the jaw and tongue…

Ana wins ASA award

Ana Rodriguez ’24 received the Robert W. Young Award for Undergraduate Student Research in Acoustics from the Acoustical Society of America. The award was established as a gift to the Acoustical Society Foundation made by the family of the late Robert W. Young in his honor to support undergraduate…

UF SLHS at ASHA

UF SLHS will be well represented at the upcoming ASHA Convention, which will be held in New Orleans!  Faculty members, Drs. Susan Nittrouer and Emily Plowman, will also be receiving distinguished awards from the Association.