This past week, Dr. Tager-Flusberg held a private graduation ceremony for Dr. Sophie Schwartz (who completed her PhD last year but who had no ceremony because of the pandemic) and Dr. Mihaela Barokova (who graduated this month). With Dr. Tager-Flusberg in the middle, Mihaela is on the left, in the gown, and Sophie is on […]
Helen’s INSAR Lifetime Achievement Award Acceptance speech is now available for any who couldn’t attend the INSAR conference awards ceremony to see it. We feel so fortunate to have such a great scientist at our helm!
On Monday May 3, there was a Community Autism Conference with updates from several scientists who are sharing their work at INSAR this week, and topics specifically related to the Covid-19 pandemic’s effects on the ASD community. In addition, Dr. Tager-Flusberg, who is accepting the Lifetime Achievement Award from INSAR TODAY, also gave an invited […]
Our Director, Dr. Helen Tager-Flusberg, is accepting the Lifetime Achievement Award from INSAR today during the annual meeting. The awards ceremony begins at 4pm! Helen will be giving a short talk, which we will share when it is available. In addition, a former graduate student and current research scientist in the lab, Dr. Sophie Schwartz, […]
We’ve been so lucky to have Jenn Leano work here at CARE for four amazing years! This past week was her last week– Jenn has taken a position as Clinical Research Program Coordinator with Dr. Megan Ranney’s team at Brown University, Lifespan Center for Digital Health. We all wish her well in her new role! We […]
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship The Center for Autism Research Excellence (CARE) at Boston University has an immediate opening for a full time post-doctoral fellow for a 2-year term to work on a variety of ongoing research programs that explore early brain and behavioral development in autism, with a focus on language and social cognition. We […]
On World Autism Awareness Day, we celebrate the countless ways that people with autism contribute to our families, our communities, our Nation, and the world, and we shine a light on the systemic barriers people with autism face in their daily lives. You can read the full proclamation from the White House here.
Last week, one of our doctoral students, Mihaela Barokova, defended her dissertation successfully and earned her PhD! Tomorrow, the newly-minted Doctor is giving a talk to the Infant Brain Imaging Study (IBIS) Network to talk about her ELSA protocol for language assessment and communication in ASD! She had another invited talk earlier in the month- […]
The International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) has their 20th anniversary conference this year!! To celebrate the milestone, INSAR staff interviewed some of the board and committee members, Lifetime Achievement awardees, and fellows. One of the Lifetime Achievement awardees they interviewed was our very own director, Dr. Tager-Flusberg! You can watch her interview, and see […]
Our POLO study collaborator, Dr. Lord, was interviewed by the New York Times for this piece on ASD diagnosis during the pandemic. For any that aren’t familiar with her name, Dr. Lord is the creator of the ADOS, the current gold-standard tool for ASD diagnosis. The ADOS can’t be done as effectively while masked, because […]