This past Sunday, members from our SLHS community joined the Eastern Connecticut HLAA Chapter at the Connecticut Walk4Hearing. The HLAA Walk4Hearing aims to raise awareness and funds to support hearing health, advocacy, and educational programs, while empowering individuals of all ages and backgrounds to live confidently and thrive with hearing differences. Torri Ann Woodruff-Gautherin, Portia […]
Author: Cartwright, Katharine
Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Kayla Hart
Meet Dr. Kayla Hart, an alumna of the UConn SLHS Doctorate of Audiology program! Kayla completed her undergraduate degree at Eastern Connecticut State University, majoring in Health Sciences. She worked as a pharmacy tech at this time and knew she wanted to work in healthcare, but wasn’t sure what specialty she was interested in. As […]
SLHS and HDFS Faculty Awarded CLAS Teaching Enhancement Grant
Congratulations to Torri Ann Woodruff-Gautherin of SLHS and Kim Gans of HDFS as the recipients of the CLAS Teaching Enhancement Grant! This grant is to support the development of a new innovative, integrative, team-taught course focused on community engagement, that will be cross-listed in HDFS and SLHS. The course will focus on community engagement as […]
Dr. Tufts Receives Phase II SBIR Award
Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Tufts on her recent award from the DOD/Defense Health Agency/Edare for her project on Multi-User, Reliable Hearing Protection Fit Test System with Integrated Education. This award is a Phase II SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research), which focuses on stimulating technological innovation. This project aims to improve the process of fit-testing hearing […]