Congratulations to the 2022 recipients of the Whitney R. Powers Award for Teaching Excellence, Faculty and Staff Award of Merit, and the Special Recognition of Extraordinary Service. These honors recognize faculty and staff’s ongoing commitment to service and teaching excellence during the 2021-2022 academic year. Professor Kaytlin Eldred is the recipient of the Whitney R. […]
(02/28/2022, The Washington Post) Expert quote: “Mushrooms are wonderful sources of the minerals potassium and selenium. Potassium can help lower high blood pressure, while selenium is an antioxidant that protects your cells from free radicals. If free radicals accumulate faster than your body can neutralize them, their damaging effects can contribute to chronic diseases such as […]
(03/29/2022, The Food Institute) Expert quote: “When comes to choosing yogurts, consumers should be looking for a brand that is low heart-unhealthy saturated fat as well as added sugars but contain active probiotics. Consuming this type of yogurt with high fiber grains can provide the prebiotics than help probiotics thrive.” – Clinical Professor of Nutrition Joan Salge […]
(04/08/2022, Healio.com) Expert quote: “Wearable technologies to assess disease parameters and outcomes in patient homes have been gaining more widespread use in rheumatology in recent years, partly due to the COVID-19 pandemic.” – Michael Rose, visiting fellow, Movement & Applied Imaging Lab Read the full article
(04/13/2022, Scientific American) Expert quote: “…stuttering is a problem with the on/off switch. The motors and gears work fine. But the switch doesn’t always turn on when it should. Or it doesn’t stay on as long as it should. This results in delays in initiating a word. Or repetitions of the first part of the […]
In this episode of BU’s Question of the Week podcast, Occupational Therapy Professor Gael Orsmond and PhD student Sharada Krishnan in the Families & Autism Research Lab offer a multifaceted perspective on how and why young women may have a different autistic experience compared to young men. In recent years, an increasing amount of anecdotal evidence […]
(03/31/22, Time) Expert quote: “Not being able to say a full sentence, or saying a sentence where the words sound garbled, is extremely frustrating. It can also cause a person to feel embarrassed or ashamed, so they would rather choose not to speak anymore than to say something and feel embarrassed about it.” – Swathi Kiran, […]
(03/31/22, The Washington Post) Expert Quote: “Sometimes the road to rehabilitation is long and hard, but it’s possible to improve…Not being able to communicate with your family members and loved ones can be very frustrating and very isolating. And so family members really need to help the person feel comfortable taking every opportunity to communicate.” […]
Sara O’Brien, a nutrition lecturer in the Department of Health Sciences was selected as a recipient of the 2022 Outstanding Preceptor Award from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. This award recognizes preceptors who are exemplary educators and mentors. One of only five awardees across the country, O’Brien was recognized for her “vital contributions” to […]
Jennifer Zuk, an assistant professor in Sargent’s Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, has been selected to receive a 2021 Hartwell Foundation Individual Biomedical Research Award, which recognizes exceptional scientists pursuing “early-stage, innovative, and cutting-edge biomedical research,” to advance the health of children. One of only 10 awardees nationwide this year, Zuk was selected […]
(03/31/22, npr.org) Expert Quote: ‘”[At some point], people will know somebody who’s had a stroke and has aphasia.” – Swathi Kiran, the James and Cecilia Tse Ying Professor in Neurorehabilitation in the Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences Read the full article.
(03/30/22, Boston25news.com) Expert quote: ““People with post-stroke aphasia or primary progressive aphasia usually have trouble speaking aloud or in complete sentences. They also have trouble understanding what is being said to them. An actor’s role is to speak and communicate and recite from memory long sentences with emotion. And what aphasia does to a person […]
(3/31/22, The Conversation) Swathi Kiran, the James and Cecilia Tse Ying Professor in Neurorehabilitation in the Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences at Sargent College and director of the Aphasia Research Laboratory, explains what aphasia is and how it impairs the communication of those with the condition. Aphasia is a communication disorder that affects someone’s […]
Autism advocate and scientist Dr. Temple Grandin toured Sargent College during her visit to Boston University. Dr. Grandin met with Sargent faculty and students to hear about autism research underway across our programs, including in Sargent’s Families & Autism Research Lab, Human Systems Neuroscience Lab, and Motor Development Lab Later in the day, Dr. Grandin […]
Project Aims to Boost Commercialization of Innovative Wearable and Med Tech Devices Harvard and Boston University have been awarded new grant of $3 million from the State House to support the development of next-generation robotics and wearable technologies. Researchers aim to improve the lives of people with neuro-motor impairments and to help individuals achieve ambitious fitness goals, […]