The New Century Scholars Research Grant supports innovative research by individuals who are committed to teacher-investigator careers in the university or college academic environment or in external research institutes or laboratories.
2025
Awarded $25,000 each
- Avery Dakin
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Columbia University
- Volitional Changes to Oral Processing—Exploring a “Cue-to-Chew” as an Alternative to Diet Texture Modification
- Support provided by the Swallowing Research Fund
- Meghan Davidson
- Associate Professor
- University of Kansas
- Bridging Practice to Research: Using a Delphi Method to Build a Consensus-Developed Checklist for Gestalt Language Processing
- Teresa Girolamo
- Assistant Professor
- San Diego State University
- Determining Multi-Level Factors in Communication Outcomes of Autistic Individuals
- Leah Kapa
- Assistant Professor
- The University of Arizona
- Examining Bidirectional Benefits of Language and Executive Function Interventions for Preschoolers with Developmental Language Disorder
- Kelsey Klein
- Research Scientist
- House Institute Foundation
- Characterizing the Home Auditory Environments of Hispanic Children with Hearing Loss
- Hannah Rowe
- Assistant Professor
- Northeastern University
- Clinical Phenotypes of Feedback and Feedforward Control in Adults who Stutter
- Jennifer Zuk
- Assistant Professor
- Boston University
- Early Motor Function in Infancy as a Predictor of Emerging Language Skills
2024
Awarded $25,000 each
- Amy Delaney
- Assistant Professor
- Marquette University
- Standardization of Feeding Skill Development in Typically Developing Infants 6 to 18 Months of Age
- Support provided by the Swallowing Research Fund
- Mili Kuruvilla-Dugdale
- Associate Professor
- University of Iowa
- Exploring Psychophysical Scaling for Auditory-Perceptual Evaluation of Dysarthria
- Margarethe McDonald
- Assistant Professor
- University of Kansas
- Predicting Experience-Specific Bilingual Speech Production With Machine Learning
- Gabriela Meade
- Assistant Professor
- Mayo Clinic
- Dysphagia in Patients With Primary Progressive Apraxia of Speech: Identification, Characterization, and Clinical Correlates
- Support provided by the Swallowing Research Fund
- Hyejin Park
- Assistant Professor
- University of Mississippi
- Evaluation of Multimodal Communication Treatment with Discourse via Telepractice for People With Aphasia
- Terrin Tamati
- Research Assistant Professor
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Remote Training to Improve Indexical Processing Deficits in Adult Cochlear Implant Users
2023
Awarded $25,000 each
- Danielle Brimo
- Associate Professor, Texas Christian University
- Proposal: The Development of an Explicit Grammar Assessment from a National Sample of Speech-Language Pathology Graduate Students
- Abigail Delehanty
- Assistant Professor, Duquesne University
- Proposal: Promoting Early Identification of Speech Motor Delays in Autistic Toddlers Using a Novel Clinical Assessment
- Monique Mills
- Associate Professor, University of Houston
- Proposal: Listening and Learning in a Second Dialect: An Eye-Tracking Study
- Elizabeth Heller Murray
- Assistant Professor, Temple University
- Proposal: Investigating Barriers to Implementing Pediatric Voice Therapy in the Schools
- Viral Tejani
- Assistant Professor, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
- Senior Clinical Research Audiologist, Case Western Reserve University
- Proposal: Impact of Electrode Array Type on Electrophysiological Measures of Spatial Resolution and Temporal Encoding
2022
Awarded $25,000 each
- Sabrina Horvath
- Assistant Professor
- Medical University of South Carolina
- Syntactic Bootstrapping in Late Talkers
- Erin Kamarunas
- Associate Professor
- James Madison University
- Predictive Value of Oral Sensory Perception on Dysphagia
- Swallowing Research Fund
- Çagla Kantarcigil
- Research Assistant Professor
- Northwestern University
- Examining the Impact of Haptic Cues on Swallowing Frequency in Patients with Parkinson's Disease
- Eun Jin Paek
- Assistant Professor
- The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
- Behavioral Outcomes and Neural Correlates of a Multifactorial Treatment Approach in Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type
2021
Awarded $25,000 each
- Kim R. Bauerly
- Assistant Professor
- University of Vermont
- The Effects of Attentional Focus on Speech Motor Control in Adults Who Stutter With and Without Social Evaluative Threat
- Marika King
- Assistant Professor
- Utah State University
- Bilingual Codeswitching Using Augmentative and Alternative Communication
- Panying Rong
- Assistant Professor
- University of Kansas
- A Novel Multimodal Framework for Automated Objective Evaluation of Speech Impairment in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- Yagmur Seven
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- University of Kansas
- Development and Initial Validation of the Family Need Assessment Survey
- Alan Wisler
- Assistant Professor
- Utah State University
- Validation and Toolkit Development for Non-Linear Kinematic Speech Stability Measures
View New Century Scholars Research Grant recipients before 2021 [PDF].