FanTing, an undergraduate research assistant in the lab, received another award for her summer research. The Students Preparing for Academic-Research Careers (SPARC) award aims to garner student interest in pursuing a PhD and academic careers, particularly in communication sciences and disorders. For more information about the award and the work FanTing will complete over the […]

Andrew and Meghan, undergraduate research assistants in the lab, graduated from UIUC with degrees in Speech and Hearing Science! We are so proud of them and will miss having them in the lab. Good luck to you both on your future endeavors!

Congratulations to Lydia on her first first-author publication! The paper is titled “Theta and Alpha Alterations in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment in Semantic Go/NoGo Tasks”. AbstractGrowing evidence suggests that cognitive control processes are impaired in amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI); however the nature of these alterations needs further examination. The current study examined differences in […]

Andrew, Stephany, Meghan, and FanTing made us proud by all presenting posters at the Undergraduate Research Symposium in April! They did a great job of explaining their work to the judges, students, faculty, and professors who attended the event. Congratulations to all of you! Andrew: Portable Listening Devices: Listening Habits, Hearing Health, and Cognition Stephany […]

FanTing, an undergraduate research assistant in the lab, received the Campus Honor Program’s Summer Research Award which will allow her to spend the summer researching a topic of her choice. FanTing will be exploring functional communication in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease. At the end of the summer she will submit a research report of her […]

Lydia and Shraddha presented their poster “Characterizing Early and Late Mild Cognitive Impairment Using EEG Alpha Power” at the second annual Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Initiative Clinical and Translational Neuroscience Workshop at Carle Foundation Hospital on February 17. This workshop focused on the topics of sleep, rehabilitative and restorative neuroscience, and neurological disease (for more information […]

The LINC (Life story Intervention through Narratives and Conversations) program was started by Dr. Raksha Mudar and Clarion Mendes to train graduate student clinicians on how to deliver personalized care to individuals diagnosed with dementia and other neurodegenerative conditions. The program has been a wonderful success and was recently highlighted on the UIUC facebook page […]

The Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Initiative (IHSI) at UIUC put out it’s inaugural issue of NeuroMatters for Fall 2016 and Lydia had her work shown in it! In August 2016, Lydia presented a poster at “Synapse: A Collaborative Neuroscience Conference” hosted at the Beckman Institute in collaboration with the Carle Neuroscience Institute, where she got to […]

Shraddha, a new PhD student in the lab, received The Lady Meherbai D. Tata Education Trust scholarship, which is geared towards helping women from India pursue higher education. Great work Shraddha and congratulations on such an achievement!

This past weekend the Alzheimer’s Association hosted a Walk to End Alzheimer’s here in Champaign (for more information about the Champaign walk click here or about the walks in general click here). Members of AANCL volunteered and walked at the event to show our support for the cause. There was a great turnout at the […]