Wednesday, October 5, 2011

NSSLHA Meeting 10/4 "Meet the Professors"

Announcements:
Shannon - Friday Oct. 14 from 11:00-12:00; 20 people will be going to Capitol School to volunteer. A sign up went around. Let Shannon know if you can drive.
Sunday Oct. 23 we will be going out to Bastrop to help in the aftermath of the wildfire. Let Shannon know if you can drive people out there. More details to come.
Next meeting is our Grad School Panel - UTC 4.110 at 5:00 on Tues. Oct. 18 (not usual room) dressy casual attire. We will be hearing from multiple of the grad school programs here in TX!

MEET THE PROFESSORS:

Questions:
1. What classes are you teaching?
2. What school(s) did you attend to get your degrees?
3. Are you interested in research? Current research studies?
4. What is the most difficult CSD class you have ever taken
5. Tell us an interesting fact about you!

Dr. Tom Marquardt
1. Undergrad - Intro to CSD
2. University of Wisconsin for undergrad then to University of Washington in Seattle for Ph.D
3. Interested in brain trauma.
4. Oral Facial Anomalies
5. Loves WWII history and the Holocaust.

Dr. Barbara (Babs) Davis
1. Undergrad - Phonetics, Speech Science; Grad - Developmental Speech Disorders
2. University of TX - Austin for undergrad and grad
3. Loves Nancy Drew, so loves research! Interested in how speech sound development occurs across languages and also in hearing impaired individuals, how parents talk to their children, and much more!
4. CSD was easy. French was hard!
5. Had a blue Roadster and loves to scuba dive whenever she gets the chance!

Dr. Chang Liu
1. Undergrad - Hearing Science; Grad - Auditory Anatomy and Physiology, Psychoacoustics
2. Went to school in Beijing and did Ph.D at Indiana University.
3. Interested in perception of speech in different populations and bilingual speech perception and production.
4. Auditory Anatomy and Physiology - it was his 1st class in English!
5. He is a runner - did the NYC 1/2 marathon and hopes to work up to a full marathon.

Dr. Li Sheng
1. Undergrad - Acquisition of Communication Abilities in Children; Grad - School Age Language Disorders
2. Came to US in 2000 and did Ph.D at Northwestern
3. Interested in list recall in adults, vocab/word learning, Mandarin/English bilinguals v. monolingual English, fluency disorders.
4. Neurological Bases of Language
5. Loves Gossip Girl!

Dr. Su-Hyun Jin
1. Undergrad - Principles of Audiology; Grad - Hearing Conservation, Speech Perception, and Cochlear Implants
2. Got a Biology degree in S. Korea and did her Masters and Ph.d in CSD at University of Minnesota.
3. Interested in bilingual speech perception/production, speech perception in CI users in different types of noise, hearing aids and how they help listeners with hearing loss.
4. English Phonetics and American Sign Language
5. Likes mystery and detective movies... sometimes she dreams about being a spy and catching the bad guys!

Dr. Craig Champlin
1. Grad - Auditory Electrophysiology, Medical Audiology
2. He was a Bio/Psych major in undergrad at a small liberal arts college, then went to the University of Kansas to do his doctoral in Hearing Science - learned about Audiology and switched to it. He has been at UT for over 20 years!
3. Interested in the input of sound, the brain's physchological response to sound, and behavioral responses to sound.
4. Psychoacoustics
5. Loves baseball. Tried out for the Minnesota Twins but stuck with the academic path.

Dr. Harvey Sussman
1. Undergrad - Speech Science, Clinical Research in Speech Language Pathology
2. Majored in Psychology at University of Wisconsin (he and Dr. Marquardt had class together) and did his post-doc work at UT where he stumbled into Linguistics and CSD.
3. He has had over 100 publications in 40 years. Interested in coarticulation. locus equations, stuttering, and children with Developmental Apraxia of Speech
4. none
5. He loves humor and satire. He has a movie idea and an idea for a children's book.

WE LOVE ALL OF OUR CSD PROFESSORS!

47 comments:

  1. Is it too late to pay dues?
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  2. I read it. :) Sorry I couldn't make it!
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  7. I couldn't make it, but read the minutes!(:
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  12. awesome to learn a little more about the professors!
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  18. Couldn't stay for the meeting yesterday, but i read the minutes!
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  27. Is there still room to sign up to go to the Capitol School? What time are y'all going on Friday?

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  28. I read the minutes!
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  36. I read the minutes! I have Dr. Davis and Dr. Liu this year! Enjoy them both!
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  46. I couldn't make this meeting, but I have read the minutes!

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