New Century Scholars Research Grant Recipients

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.

2023

Awarded $25,000 each

Danielle Brimo

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

Abigail Delehanty
Assistant Professor, Duquesne University
Proposal: Promoting Early Identification of Speech Motor Delays in Autistic Toddlers Using a Novel Clinical Assessment

Monique Mills

Monique Mills
Associate Professor, University of Houston
Proposal: Listening and Learning in a Second Dialect: An Eye-Tracking Study

Elizabeth Heller Murray

Elizabeth Heller Murray
Assistant Professor, Temple University
Proposal: Investigating Barriers to Implementing Pediatric Voice Therapy in the Schools

Viral Tejani

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
Sabrina Horvath
Assistant Professor
Medical University of South Carolina
Syntactic Bootstrapping in Late Talkers
Erin Kamarunas
Erin Kamarunas
Associate Professor
James Madison University
Predictive Value of Oral Sensory Perception on Dysphagia
Swallowing Research Fund
Cagla Kantarcigil
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
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
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
Marika King
Assistant Professor
Utah State University
Bilingual Codeswitching Using Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Panying Rong
Panying Rong
Assistant Professor
University of Kansas
A Novel Multimodal Framework for Automated Objective Evaluation of Speech Impairment in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Yagmur Seven
Yagmur Seven
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Kansas
Development and Initial Validation of the Family Need Assessment Survey
Alan Wisler
Alan Wisler
Assistant Professor
Utah State University
Validation and Toolkit Development for Non-Linear Kinematic Speech Stability Measures

2020

Awarded $25,000 each

Brittan A. Barker
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
Danai Kasambira Fannin
Associate Professor
North Carolina Central University
Contextual Factors Affecting Identification of Rural African American Children With Autism
Sung-Joo Lim
Sung-Joo Lim
Research Assistant Professor
Boston University
Neural Systems for Attentional Control in Speech Processing
Yonghee Oh
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
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
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
Jennifer Mozeiko
Assistant Professor
University of Connecticut
Quantifying Communication in the Home Environments of People With Aphasia
Ignatius S. Nip
Ignatius S. Nip
Associate Professor
San Diego State University
Quantifying Tongue Movement After Radiation Therapy in Patients With Oropharyngeal Cancer

View New Century Scholars Research Grant recipients before 2019 [PDF].