Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette,Indiana,and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and money to establish a college of science,technology,and agriculture in his name. The first classes were held on September 16,1874,with six instructors and 39 students.
The Doctor of Audiology is a professional degree for an audiologist. The AuD program is designed to produce audiologists who are skilled in providing diagnostic,rehabilitative,and other services associated with hearing,balance,tinnitus management,and related audiological fields. These individuals help patients with hearing problems primarily by diagnosing hearing loss and fitting hearing assistive devices.
Dysprosody,which may manifest as pseudo-foreign accent syndrome,refers to a disorder in which one or more of the prosodic functions are either compromised or eliminated.
Dorothy Runk Mennen was a pioneer in the creation of a voice curriculum for the university training of theatre actors and professional performers. She was also a prolific author regarding the training of the voice and Professor Emerita of Theatre at Purdue University.
The Lee Silverman Voice Treatment –LOUD is a treatment for speech disorders associated with Parkinson's disease (PD). It focuses on increasing vocal loudness and is delivered by a speech therapist in sixteen one-hour sessions spread over four weeks. A derivative of this treatment,known as LSVT BIG,is used in treating movement aspects of Parkinson's disease.
Alejandro Strachan is a scientist in the field of computational materials and the Reilly Professor of Materials Engineering at Purdue University. Before joining Purdue University,he was a staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
The Bionics Institute is an Australian medical research institute focusing on medical device development. It is located in Melbourne,Australia.
Margaret Katherine "Kathy" Banks is an American academic,engineer,and was the 26th president of Texas A&M University from 2021 to 2023,only the second woman to hold that position out of 41 total presidents at the time,including her interim successor.
Jessica Lee Ware is a Canadian-American evolutionary biologist and entomologist. She is the associate curator of invertebrate zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. In addition,she is a principal investigator at the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics and an associate professor for the Richard Gilder Graduate School.
Harriet Black Nembhard is the President of Harvey Mudd College in Claremont,California. From July 2020 through June 2023,she served as the Dean of the University of Iowa College of Engineering and the Roy J. Carver Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at that institution.
Marzyeh Ghassemi is a Canada-based researcher in the field of computational medicine,where her research focuses on developing machine-learning algorithms to inform health-care decisions. She is currently an assistant professor at the University of Toronto's Department of Computer Science and Faculty of Medicine,and is a Canada CIFAR Artificial Intelligence (AI) chair and Canada Research Chair in machine learning for health.
Sandra Gordon-Salant is an American audiologist. She is a professor at the University of Maryland,College Park,where she is also director of the doctoral program in clinical audiology. Gordon-Salant investigates the effects of aging and hearing loss on auditory processes,as well as signal enhancement devices for hearing-impaired listeners. She is the senior editor of the 2010 book,The Aging Auditory System. Gordon-Salant has served as editor of the Journal of Speech,Language,and Hearing Research.
Monica Gandhi is an American physician and professor. She teaches medicine at the University of California,San Francisco (UCSF) and is director of the UCSF Gladstone Center for AIDS Research and the medical director of the San Francisco General Hospital HIV Clinic,Ward 86. Her research considers HIV prevalence in women,as well as HIV treatment and prevention. She has been noted as a critic of some aspects of the COVID-19 lockdowns in the US.
Jennifer Mercieca is an American scholar of rhetoric. She is a professor of communication at Texas A&M University. She has written about the rhetorical style of Donald Trump,and the founding narratives that informed the political culture of the United States.
Jessica Fanzo is an American scientist. She is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Global Food and Agriculture Policy and Ethics at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics,the Bloomberg School of Public Health,and the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Prior to coming to Johns Hopkins,Fanzo was an assistant professor of Nutrition in the Institute of Human Nutrition and Department of Pediatrics at Columbia University. In January 2023,Columbia announced that Fanzo will rejoin its faculty as a professor in the Columbia Climate School.
Sherry Lynn Voytik-Harbin is a professor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Basic Medical Sciences at Purdue University.
Jessica Adrienne Grahn is an American music neuroscientist. She is the director of the Human Cognitive and Sensorimotor Core of the University of Western Ontario's Brain and Mind Institute. During the COVID-19 pandemic,Grahn was named to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars,Artists and Scientists.
Xiuling Li is a distinguished electrical and computer engineering professor in the field of nanostructured semiconductor devices. She is currently the Temple Foundation Endowed Professorship No. 3 in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Fellow of the Dow Professor in Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin. Previously,she was a Donald Biggar Willet Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Interim Director of the Nick Holonyak Jr. Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Alyssa Panitch is an American biomedical engineer. She is a Professor and Department Chair in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. Panitch focuses on designing biopolymers that improve tissue healing and regeneration by researching intracellular and extracellular approaches to direct molecular and cellular processes.
Hong Z. Tan is a Chinese-American researcher in haptic technology and haptic perception. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University.
