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Harvard SHBT is an innovative, interdisciplinary doctoral program that trains researchers in basic science, translational medicine, and engineering approaches to the field of human communication.

SHBT faculty and students pursue research questions related to auditory neuroscience, signal processing, perception and cognition, and speech-language pathology, combining rigorous training in a range of rigorous scientific disciplines with valuable exposure to clinical practice.

SHBT includes more than 50 faculty members and roughly 40 students at various stages in their doctoral work, operating out of more than 50 different labs at Harvard, MIT, and the Harvard teaching hospitals.

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Dr. Julie Arenberg and Charles Hem

World Hearing Day, March 3, 2024

February 27, 2024
To commemorate World Hearing Day 2024, SHBT is spotlighting a student and his advisor who work in the research area of cochlear implant technology. Charles Hem is a 4th-year doctoral candidate in the Harvard Program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience Technology. His dissertation advisor is Dr. Julie Arenberg who is an Associate Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery and leads the Emerging Auditory Research (EAR) Lab at Mass Eye and Ear.... Read more about World Hearing Day, March 3, 2024
Latane Bullock and Grace Chaves

Find Your Center: Nourishment for the Body and Mind

February 27, 2024

Student Center food literacy and wellness fellows help students relax, unwind, and connect

"Latané Bullock is passionate about food. As the food literacy fellow for the Student Center at the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Harvard Griffin GSAS), the PhD candidate in speech and hearing biosciences channels that passion by creating programming that enables fellow students to experience the taste of home cooking, try new cuisine, and make better food choices by consuming the produce of local sustainable providers.... Read more about Find Your Center: Nourishment for the Body and Mind

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Virtual Open House

November 1, 2023
Join us for the HILS Open House on November 1st, 5 PM- 7 PM EST to meet the SHBT admissions chairand and current student representatives to learn more about the program and the admissions process and the SHBT community. More details to be share soon!