(10/15) Clinical Associate Professor Joan Salge Blake quoted. Expert quote: “That’s the million-dollar question. Is it how the meat is cooked that contributes to cancer risk, whether it’s processed, or both? This report doesn’t say, and we don’t have the answer based on existing studies.” View full article
(10/27/15) Clinical Associate Professor Joan Salge Blake quoted. Expert quote: “Maybe we can expand our horizons this year, start looking at a more varied diet. This may be a good time to start thinking about incorporating fish, or go meatless for a day. . . . Mix this all up so we’re not eating a […]
(10/26/15) Executive Director of the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Professor Kim Mueser quoted. Expert quote: “We see improvements across the board—in social relationships, at work and in school, in reduction of the severity of symptoms, in all the things that are most important to people experiencing an episode of psychosis. This shows that […]
(10/22/15) Dean Christopher A. Moore quoted. Expert quote: “We are extraordinarily appreciative of the vision and commitment expressed by these anonymous donors in focusing our research and educational efforts in this way. We’re especially pleased that this collaboration will further the highest ideals of both BU and the Travis Roy Foundation, providing clear […]
Boston University (BU) College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College received a $2.5 million gift to establish the Travis M. Roy Professorship in Rehabilitation Sciences and to support an ongoing partnership with the Travis Roy Foundation. This gift from an anonymous group of donors will immediately fund the Travis M. Roy Professorship at Sargent […]
(10/21/15) “An additional surprise of the evening came from Chris Moore, Dean of Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences at Boston University, who announced that an anonymous seven-figure donation would fund the Travis Roy Professorship in Research Sciences at BU.” View full article
(10/22/15) Clinical Professor Karen Jacobs quoted. Expert quote: “They look like turtles; they’re walking forward, the posture changed. Some will complain they have headaches, pain in the shoulders, neck, backs.” View full article
Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences doctoral student Liz Heller Murray received the prestigious ASHFoundation New Century Scholars Doctoral Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded to strong doctoral candidates who are pursuing teacher-investigator careers in the academic environment. Murray will use the funding to help further her research on voice disorders in adult and pediatric populations. Ms. […]
(10/16/15) Clinical Associate Professor Joan Salge Blake talks about the dangers of weight loss supplements. “New research suggests 23,000 annual trips to a hospital emergency room are due to folks taking dietary supplements…” View full article
(10/14/15) Clinical Associate Professor Joan Salge Blake quoted. Expert quote: “I think Americans are slowly getting the message that … breads and grains are fine as long as they are whole grains so we get fiber and nutrients.” View full article
(Fall 2015) “In collaboration with the Sargent Aphasia Resource Center, we have developed such innovative programs as an intensive aphasia treatment program, an aphasia community chorus, and have provided numerous opportunities for our members to participate in research, which has led to innovative treatment programs such as Constant Therapy,” – Jerome Kaplan View full article
(10/05/15) Professor Gerald Kidd and Research Assistant Professor Jayaganesh Swaminathan quoted. Expert quote: “Everybody realizes that the coffee grinder in a coffee shop creates all this noise and racket that you want to avoid. When you communicate in a room full of people, the noise is not just loud, it’s also interesting, and competes with the […]
2015 Dudley Allen Sargent Lecture “Head Games: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and the Long-term Consequences of Repetitive Brain Trauma” was presented by Dr. Robert A. Stern, Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, at Boston University School of Medicine. Watch the 2015 lecture here.
(10/07/15) Associate Clinical Professor Dori Hutchinson quoted. Expert quote: ““When your mood state interferes with your ability to function at school, like when you’re finding you can’t get to class, and you don’t want to hang out with your friends or teammates, and you’re having difficulty concentrating because you’re feeling so distressed—that’s when we want […]
(10/08/15) Associate Clinical Professor Dori Hutchinson quoted. Expert quote: “We bring the screening in public to show that asking for help is a strength. Everyone struggles. It’s part of the human condition. We just want to help people have a productive struggle.” View full article