Graduate Students from both Speech and Hearing and History of Art will be spending their summer on research projects due to recent awards.
This summer, PhD student Asia Adomanis will be in residency at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) as a Predoctoral Fellow in Asian American Art. Asia’s fellowship is supported by funding from the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center and the Big Ten Academic Alliance/Smithsonian Fellowship Program. As a SAAM Predoctoral Fellow, under the supervision of SAAM’s curator of twentieth century art, Melissa Ho, Asia will conduct research for a dissertation chapter entitled “Inscrutable Surfaces: Confronting Abstraction, Authenticity, and Cold War Racial (Il)legibility in Seong Moy’s Color Woodcuts, 1946-1965.” Read more.
Breanna Langenek, a second-year Doctor of Audiology student, has been awarded a National Insitute of Health (NIH) T-35 award to complete an audiology research traineeship this summer at the National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research, located at the Portland (Oregon) VA Medical Center. These highly competitive positions are awarded to AuD students who want targeted experiences to help provide the foundation for a future research career in audiology.