Category: Alumni

Category: Alumni

SAR’s Swathi Kiran Earns Full Professorship

(3/19/14) Professor Swathi Kiran and 12 additional BU instructors earn full professorships. “Kiran’s research into aphasia upended the belief that people with aphasia caused by strokes relearn language in the same way children learn it. Her finding suggested better therapies for patients.” View full article.

BU Sargent Receives $2.75M NIH Grant To Develop Visually Guided Hearing Aid

Boston University (BU) College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College was awarded a five-year, $2.75M grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) to test and refine a prototype Visually Guided Hearing Aid (VGHA). Gerald D. Kidd Jr., professor in the Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences at BU […]

Boston Globe: Find Nutritious Meals in the Frozen Aisle

(3/17/14) Clinical Associate Professor Joan Salge Blake quoted. Expert quote: “How many times have you purchased fresh broccoli and had it sit for a week in your refrigerator turning yellow and wilting before you finally got around to using it?” View full article.