This personal reflection was written by MS in Nutrition student Shikha Advani (Sargent ’22) as part of the course Eating Disorders Treatment and Prevention and has been published on the Walden Behavioral Care blog. In the South Asian community, there is a significant stigma around mental illness. In my childhood, I never heard the term […]
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, […]
(2/14/22, U.S. News & World Report) “The African heritage diet celebrates the culinary legacy of healthy eating for people of African descent. The African heritage diet pyramid is yet another science-based healthy eating option. And it’s about time that we started embracing other cultures and their positive health benefits.” – Clinical Professor of Nutrition Joan […]
(2/1/2022, USA Today) Expert Quote: “If we’re monetizing sexuality or beauty or availability or instant access to somebody, there are all kinds of things that we’re monetizing in that situation that may then have implications for how people treat each other….There is a way in which you can simultaneously try to push back against the […]
(1/18/22, HealthCity) “Engaging communities as partners in research is essential for ensuring that the right questions are asked, appropriate methods are used, results are interpreted in context, and findings are effectively translated. Yet, the experiences and perspectives of many communities are often missing from research studies, especially those of Black, Indigenous, and other people of […]
(12/3/21, Psychology Today) Expert Quote: “This [model] gives us a fighting chance of finding the specific problems underlying stuttering and addressing them with highly targeted drugs or technological treatments that have minimal unwanted side effects.” – Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences Professor Frank Guenther Read the full article.
(9/30/21, TheLily) Expert Quote: “This kind of program is an excellent step towards tracking and monitoring violence when it does happen, so that we can better understand risk factors and start to address those factors and ensure safety for LGBTQ+ people…This is step No. 1 in the public health playbook.” – Occupational Therapy Professor and […]
By PhD student Dheepak Arumukhom Revi and Assistant Professor Louis N. Awad The emerging fields of telehealth and digital therapeutics are primed to change the face of healthcare. They are also well-suited to leverage wearable sensors that can monitor movement in the everyday world. Indeed, we have recently seen a rapid expansion of everyday technologies […]
Sargent College Dean and Professor Christopher Moore and Assistant Professor Jennifer Zuk were honored by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) for their contributions to the professions of speech-language pathology and speech & hearing science. Moore received the Honors of the Association, the highest award ASHA bestows, for his distinguished contributions to the discipline of communication […]
Boston University researchers urge caution when evaluating voice disorders over teleconferencing platforms due to differences in acoustic measurements. by Gina Matinca from the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering. Over the past year, people across the world learned how teleconferencing platforms like Zoom can help folks stay connected – playing […]
Researchers at Boston University and Boston Medical Center discover that patients with hyperfunctional voice disorders not only have changes to laryngeal motor patterns, but also disrupted ability to integrate auditory information. by Gina Matinca from the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering. A singer’s instrument is their voice, but their […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that there is an urgent need for more effective approaches to connect people from varying cultures and communities to public health solutions in ways that are accessible, helpful, and meaningful. In this Issues in Brief from the Pardee School of Global Studies, Marial Williams, a Sargent student in the doctor […]
(12/9/2020, Psychology Today) A new study by Research Associate Professor Virginia Best suggests that in “cocktail party” listening situations, people’s eye position steers their visual attention—which, in turn, guides their auditory attention. “Our primary motivation was an intuition that eye position may be especially critical within these [cocktail party] situations, where there is substantial energetic and […]
Associate Professor Simone Gill was named to the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) Roster of Fellows for her contributions to innovative interdisciplinary science which advances motor performance skills. This honor recognizes AOTA colleagues who have made significant contributions to the profession of occupational therapy through knowledge, expertise, leadership, advocacy, and/or guidance. Gill directs the Motor […]
Michael Scimeca, a PhD candidate in Speech Language & Hearing Sciences, received a Graduate Student Scholarship from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASHFoundation), the philanthropic arm of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). Scimeca is a graduate student in the Aphasia Research Lab where he is working on Predicting Rehabilitation Outcomes using Computational Modeling in bilingual aphasia […]