2010 Research Grants in Hearing and Balance

The AAAF congratulates these audiologists and students on the receipt of grants for research in 2010. These grants are supported by gifts made to the AAA Foundation’s Annual Fund and your contribution ensures that we have the resources to fund the future of audiology research. To make a donation restricted solely for the use of research in the hearing sciences, call the AAA Foundation office at 703-226-1049. Thank you in advance for supporting this worthy effort.

	New Investigator Research Award
	Zhengqing Hu, MD, PhD Wayne State University Title: Implantation of Inner Ear-Derived Neural Stem Cell into the Adult Inner Ear
	New Investigator Research Award
	Kathleen McNerney, PhD University at Buffalo, State University of New York Title: Caffeine and Vestibular Function Doubt: Is It Really Necessary to Go Without?
	Student Investigator Research Award
	Jamie L. Desjardins, MS Syracuse University Title: Age-Related Changes in Listening Effort for Various Types of Masker Noises
	Student Investigator Research Award
	Christopher Spankovich, AuD, MPH Vanderbilt University Title: Susceptibility of Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes to Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
	Student Summer Research Fellowship
	Laura L. Czarniak Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Title: Measures of Sound Localization and Hearing in Noise in Children with Unilateral Hearing Loss
	Student Summer Research Fellowship
	Ji Young Lee University of Tennessee Health Science Center Title: Effects of Phonological Processing on Behavioral and ERP Responses
	Vestibular Research Investigator Grant
	Jessica Pierce East Carolina University Title: Morphological Correlates of Gravity Receptor Functional Aging

2010 Student Research Forum Awards

The Student Research Forum Awards are underwritten annually with a generous gift from Plural Publishing…thank you!

	Kristi Oeding, BA Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Title: The Effectiveness of the Directional Microphone in the BAHA Divino
	Penny Anderson Gosselin, PhD candidate Centre de Recherche de l’Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal Title: Older Adults Expend More Effort to Understand Speech in Noise
	Laura Colleen Baskett, BS Auburn University Title: Perception of Time Compressed Speech in Elderly Hearing Aid Users: Effects of Amplification, Rate, Age, and Acclimatization
	Katharine Fitzharris, AuD VA Boston Healthcare System Title: Auditory Function in Adults with HIV/AIDS: Exploratory Analyses
	Garrett Cardon, AuD University of Colorado at Boulder Title: Central Auditory Maturation and Auditory Skill Development in Children with Auditory Neuropathy/DYS-Synchrony

James Jerger Awards for Excellence in Student Research

	Stephanie Nagle, BA University of Connecticut Title: Comparing the Diagnostic and Screening Gaps-in-Noise Tests
	Tracy Barsheff, BS Western Michigan University Title: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Influence on the Ear and Cranial Ganglia
	Shannon Daniels, AuD University of Connecticut Title: Electrophysiological Correlates to Behavioral Gap Detection
	Melody Benedic, BA Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Title: Inter-Aural Differences of Wave V to Click and Speech Stimuli in Children at Rish for (C)APD