Category: Students

Category: Students

Impaired Hearing Function Underlies Hyperfunctional Voice Disorders

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 […]

OTD Student Explores How the Arts can Improve Public Health Campaigns

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 […]

BU’s Sargent College, Nutrition Club discuss healthy eating

(3/15/2021, The Daily Free Press) “Boston University’s Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences held an event Thursday titled “Three Steps to Maximizing Nutrition and Satisfaction” focused on balancing food intake and creating strategies for healthy eating. Rachel Reynolds, the assistant director and senior nutritionist at BU’s Sargent Choice Nutrition Center and licensed dietitian, led […]

Virtual Campus Tour with Admissions Ambassador Hikima Lukomwa (Sargent’22)

(12/16/2020, BU Today) This year, because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, campus admissions tours have had to go virtual. Instead of walking across campus trailed by a group of high schoolers and their families, BU admissions ambassadors like Hikima Lukomwa (Sargent’22) are conducting tours via iPhone, with prospective students logging on from all over the […]

Meet BU’s COVID-19 Contact Tracing Team

(12/4/2020, The Brink) One of the many new terms that has entered the average American’s vocabulary since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic is “contact tracing.” While quick to the lips of many public health experts, what contact tracing actually is, and why it plays a critical role in stemming the tide of disease transmission, […]

Sargent Student Launches Non-Profit, Preemie to Pre-Med

(11/3/2020, The Daily Free Press) “Lena Papadakis and her two triplet sisters were born premature at 32 weeks. For much of her childhood, she was in and out of Massachusetts General Hospital with chronic pneumonia and frequent surgeries. But out of this distress, she grew to love the medical field and is now giving back to […]

Professor Simone Gill Named to AOTA Roster of Fellows

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 […]

SLHS PhD Candidate Michael Scimeca Receives ASHF Scholarship

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 […]

Virtual Professional Development Workshops

We are pleased to announce the virtual Sargent College Professional Development Workshops Series sponsored in partnership with the Sargent College Alumni Association and the BU Center for Career Development(CCD). These events, available to Sargent undergraduates, allow students to advance their professional development and network with Sargent alumni. We developed this workshop series in response to […]

Leading the Charge: The $7 Million Story of BU’s Hybrid Teaching Transition

(8/26/2020, BU Today)  Karen Jacobs, a remote teaching coordinator for Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences, says RTCs tapped the resources at DL&I’s Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), shared their knowledge, and passed on what they learned to their own faculties. Jacobs (Sargent’79), a Sargent clinical professor, associate dean for digital learning and […]