The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) is excited to announce a new internal research grant opportunity—the Dean’s Research Challenge Grant. Full-time CAS faculty from all college divisions, including Visiting Professors and non-tenure track faculty, are eligible to apply. The Principal Investigator’s (PI) primary appointment must be in a CAS unit. Interdisciplinary teams are encouraged, and teams can have non-CAS members.
Unit: Communication Sciences and Disorders
Ambassador Geeta Pasi to deliver lecture on November 13
Ambassador Geeta Pasi (retired), Inaugural Donald F. McHenry Visiting Professor in Diplomacy and International Affairs, will deliver a lecture, “Representing America Abroad: Telling our story, advancing American interests, and serving Americans,” at 7 p.m. on Monday, November 13 in the Circus Room in the Bone Student Center. Her talk is free and open to the public.
Nominations for the 2024 Grabill-Homan Community Peace Prize currently being accepted
Nominations for the 2024 Grabill-Homan Community Peace Prize are currently being accepted. Please consider nominating someone you know who’s doing great work in our community!
Virtual reality technology and individuals with communication disorders
An interdisciplinary team has developed a real-world virtual environment to examine the potential of VR technology and innovative applications in evidence-based practice in SLP intervention, clinical training, and pedagogy.
A help for stuttering awareness
Awareness of stuttering goes a long way, as many people do not know much about stuttering and may have never heard a person stutter.
Graduate student in audiology awarded scholarship
Aaliyah Gladney was awarded the Empowering Students Scholarship.
An invitation to the 2023 fall Dean’s Address and Awards Ceremony
The fall 2023 College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Address and Awards Ceremony will be at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 5 in the Old Main Room in the Bone Student Center.
2023 Public meeting: Reaccreditation for Clinical Doctorate in Audiology and Master’s in Speech-Language Pathology
Seeking participants for public meeting for Reaccreditation for the Clinical Doctorate in Audiology and Master’s in Speech-Language Pathology.
CSD film series addresses literacy instruction gaps
Illinois’ poor reading scores, which have remained stagnant for over 17 years, demonstrate that children with dyslexia are not the only children in Illinois schools who are struggling to learn to read under current instructional methods. The Right to Read documentary follows Oakland NAACP activist, Kareem Weaver, who believes literacy is our most important civil right.
Audiology program provides new community outreach
This outreach program provided hearing care to some of the more compromised sisters for whom traveling to the Bloomington area would have been a hardship.