In the Spotlight
SHBT Admissions Open House
November 16, 2020
6-7:30 PM EST
The event will be a great opportunity to find out more about the SHBT Program, meet our faculty and students and give you an opportunity to ask questions. We would love to have you join us! Read more here.
2020 SHBT End-of-Summer Talks
The G4 cohort of Harvard University's program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology (SHBT) cordially invites you to the 2020 SHBT End-of-Summer Talks. Read more here.
SHBT Student Christine Junhui Liu Awarded Science and Innovation Fellowship
SHBT Student Christine Junhui Liu was among four Harvard doctoral students awarded Science and Innovation Fellowships for the 2020-2021 academic year by the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. Read more here.
Recent SHBT Graduate Ariel Yeh’s featured in the Harvard Gazette
SHBT Graduate Ariel Yeh’s research on recessive genes and genome editing to address hearing loss are featured in this recent article in the Harvard Gazette: Gene Editing May Be a Path to Restore Partial Hearing
SHBT and COVID-19
SHBT Faculty Satrajit Ghosh and PhD student Daniel Low are quoted in this article from Business Insider. Do I sound sick to you? Researchers are building AI that would diagnose COVID-19 by listening to people talk.
SHBT Student Quoted in The Crimson
In Harvard Ph.D. Students Map Incidents of Anti-Asian Aggression, Ja Young Cho, an SHBT Ph.D. student and co-creator of the interactive map, said the map led to some surprising findings.
SHBT Professor on YouTube
A YouTube channel spoke with cognitive neuroscientist and SHBT Faculty member Ev Fedorenko about the language architecture of the brain, adult language learning, and the difference between thought and language.
SHBT Graduate Trending
SHBT graduate Rachel Romeo recently shared an affirming experience with a nonverbal autistic child on Twitter and Reddit
SHBT-MIT grad awarded PECASE
Cara Stepp, an associate professor in the Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, is a 2019 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
Harvard Brain Initiative awards
Three SHBT students, Stephanie Haro, Sara Beach, and Meenakshi Asokan, won the Harvard Brain Initiative (HBI) Young Scientist Development Award.
SHBT Faculty in the Spotlight
SHBT Faculty David Corey (left) and Jeffrey Holt (right) are featured in the Harvard Gazette’s recent article for their research on the TMC1 gene which opens doors for precision-targeted therapies to treat hearing loss.
read full article in the Harvard Gazette