The BU Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) selected Assistant Professor of Health Sciences Lawrence Were as a 2020 KL2 Scholar. The KL2 Program supports outstanding researchers for their efforts in developing novel solutions focused on clinical and translational research. CTSI’s KL2 program is a mentored career development program for BU’s most promising junior faculty […]
Postdoctoral Associate Elizabeth Schmidt was awarded a Switzer Fellowship from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) for her project “Understanding Sexuality and Community Participation in Adults on the Autism Spectrum.” Switzer Research Fellowships support highly qualified individuals, including those with disabilities, to conduct high quality research on the rehabilitation of individuals […]
BU Center for Neurorehabilitation (CNR) physical therapist Tim Nordahl, PT, DPT, NCS, has been elected to the Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy Board of Directors as director of communications. In this role, Nordahl will help to provide a strategic vision for the Academy as well as guidance on communication strategies and materials. At CNR, Nordahl […]
Sargent College has been awarded a $10,000 Diversity and Inclusion Promotion Grant from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. This grant supports minority recruitment and retention projects by dietetics education programs accredited/approved by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND), dietetic practice groups, member interest groups, and Academy affiliates. Sargent received the […]
Anne Escher, clinical assistant professor of occupational therapy received the Whitney R. Powers Award for Teaching Excellence. This award recognizes an outstanding member of the Sargent faculty and is named in honor of Sargent Professor Emeritus Whitney R. Powers, a former Health Sciences Department chair who for more than 25 years shared his gifts as […]
Joan Salge Blake, a Sargent College clinical professor of nutrition and dietetic internship director, received the 2020 Media Excellence Award from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND). This honor recognizes Salge Blake’s “important contribution and commitment to educating consumers about food and nutrition issues through the news media.” Salge Blake, an often quoted source […]
Defne Abur, a Sargent College PhD candidate in Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences and graduate student fellow at BU’s Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, was awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIH/NIDCD) for her work “motor phenotypes of Parkinson’s disease (postural instability […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has named doctor of occupational therapy student Marial Williams a 2020 Graduate Summer Fellow. Williams will study the intersections of music and public health in relation to communicable diseases. Beginning May 2, Pardee’s Graduate Summer Fellows will spend 10 weeks developing research papers to […]
Sargent College once again ranks among the nation’s best in the latest US News & World Report graduate school rankings. All Sargent ranked programs are now in the top 9 percent of their peers nationwide. We are the only university in New England to have three programs place in the top 20 on their respective […]
Terry Ellis, PhD, PT, NCS, associate professor and chair in the Department of Physical Therapy & Athletic Training, has been named a 2020 Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). This is the second consecutive year that a Sargent faculty member has been selected for the top honor. Clinical Associate Professor Julie […]
(2/28/20, BU Today) The Undergraduate Academic Advising Awards are given each year to advisors “who have engaged students in the collaborative process of advising and have had a significant impact on students’ academic careers.” Clinical associate professor of occupational therapy Nancy Lowenstein, who has been an advisor ever since coming to BU in 1999, knows […]
Wendy Coster, Professor and Chair in the Department of Occupational Therapy, has been selected as the 2020 recipient of the Presidents’ Commendation Award from The American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) and The American Occupational Therapy Foundation (AOTF). The rarely given accolade was established jointly by the governing Boards of both AOTA and AOTF to honor […]
Professorship Spans Two Continents and Three Generations Speech-language and hearing scientist Swathi Kiran has been named the inaugural James and Cecilia Tse Ying Professor in Neurorehabilitation at Boston University College of Health & Rehabilitation: Sargent College. Spanning two continents and three generations, the professorship was established by a $2.5 million gift from James and […]
Occupational Therapy Professors Ellen Cohn, Wendy Coster, and Gael Orsmond received the Community Partner Award from MAB Community Services/Ivy Street School. Beverly Brown, a member of the Ivy Street School board of directors and the director of development, industry at Boston University School of Public Health, presented the award. In her introduction, Brown praised the […]
Clinical Professors Karen Jacobs and Robin Newman have been honored by the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA). Jacobs, Sargent’s Associate Dean for Digital Learning & Innovation, was chosen to receive the Outstanding Mentor Award in recognition of her “boundless enthusiasm to educate, innovate, connect, and mentor.” This award recognizes occupational therapy practitioners who have […]