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.
2020
Awarded $25,000 each
- Brittan A. Barker
- Assistant Professor
- Utah State University
- Linking Parents’ Stories to Health Outcomes: Working Toward a Narrative Intervention Helping Parents to Cope With the Impact of Their Children’s Cochlear Implantation
- Danai Kasambira Fannin
- Associate Professor
- North Carolina Central University
- Contextual Factors Affecting Identification of Rural African American Children With Autism
- Sung-Joo Lim
- Research Assistant Professor
- Boston University
- Neural Systems for Attentional Control in Speech Processing
- Yonghee Oh
- Assistant Professor
- University of Florida
- Effects of Steady Background Noise on Segregation of Speech Based on Voice Pitch Differences in Hearing Impaired Listeners
2019
Awarded $25,000 each
- Pasquale Bottalico
- Assistant Professor
- University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
- Classroom Acoustics for Enhancing Students' Understanding When a Teacher Suffers From Voice Problems
- Frances Sayako Earle
- Assistant Professor
- University of Delaware
- The Use of Polysomnography to Track Perceptual Memory Consolidation in Adults With Developmental Language Impairment
- Jennifer Mozeiko
- Assistant Professor
- University of Connecticut
- Quantifying Communication in the Home Environments of People With Aphasia
- Ignatius S. Nip
- Associate Professor
- San Diego State University
- Quantifying Tongue Movement After Radiation Therapy in Patients With Oropharyngeal Cancer
2018
Awarded $25,000 each
- Sriram Boothalingam
- Assistant Professor
- University of Wisconsin–Madison
- One Stone, Three Birds: A Concurrent Clinical Test of Cochlear, Middle Ear Muscle Reflex, and Medial Olivocochlear Reflex Function
- Support provided by the Wayne and Marilyn Olsen Audiology Research Fund
- Elizabeth Erickson DiRenzo
- Assistant Professor
- Stanford University
- Development of Model Systems to Investigate the Laryngeal Health Effects of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS)
- Hua Ou
- Visiting Assistant Professor
- Wayne State University
- Will Optimized Written Instructions be as Effective as Audiological Service for OTC Hearing Device Users?
- Stephanie Ries-Cornou
- Assistant Professor
- San Diego State University
- Word Retrieval in Spanish-English Bilinguals After Stroke
2017
Awarded $25,000 each
- Eric Bielefeld
- Associate Professor
- Ohio State University
- Identifying an Interaction Between Kanamycin, Anti-Retroviral Medications, and Noise Exposure on Hearing Loss
- Kasia M. Bieszczad
- Assistant Professor
- Rutgers University
- An Epigenetic Role in the Persistence of Memory for Significant Sounds
- Jean K. Gordon
- Associate Professor
- University of Iowa
- Fluency Forward: Developing a More Reliable and Clinically Useful Assessment of Fluency in Aphasia
- Raksha M. Mudar
- Assistant Professor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Cognitive and Neural Alterations in Age-Associated Hearing Loss
- Lauryn Zipse
- Associate Professor
- MGH Institute of Health Professions
- A Neurophysiological Examination of Feedback-Based Learning in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
2016
Awarded $25,000 each
- Elizabeth Spencer Kelley
- Assistant Professor
- University of Missouri
- Explicit Word Learning of Preschool Children With Specific Language Impairment
- Kara C. Schvartz-Leyzac
- Clinical Instructor/Research Audiologist
- University of Michigan
- Effects of Aging on Spectro-Temporal Processing in Speech Among Adult Cochlear Implant Recipients
View New Century Scholars Research Grant recipients before 2016 [PDF].