Communication Sciences & Disorders Professor Ingo Titze founding member of vocology association

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Ingo TitzeUniversity of Iowa Foundation Professor Ingo Titze is a founding board member of a newly created organization devoted to the scientific study of voice. The Pan American Vocology Association’s website went live on Oct. 8, and the Inaugural PAVA Symposium will be held Oct. 9-11, 2015 at the University of North Carolina.

Titze, who holds the UI Foundation Distinguished Professorship, has a joint appointment in the Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders and the School of Music, both part of the UI College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Titze co-invented the term “vocology” in 1990, as the “science and practice of voice habilitation”. His book, Vocology, is now a standard in the field.

According to Titze’s writings, voice habilitation studies can be used to repair a voice as well as build and strengthen the voice for specific needs. The findings of vocologists may be used by otolaryngologists, speech-language pathologists, singers, voice coaches, actors, and others.

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.