Volunteers from the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Iowa provided hearing screenings to athletes as part of the Special Olympics Healthy Hearing initiative.

Vishuka Pathirana, a second-year doctoral student in chemistry at the University of Iowa, addresses global issues by starting at the molecular level. With an emphasis on organic chemistry, Pathirana focuses on worldwide food sustainability by developing compounds to increase crop yield.

Faculty and graduate students conducted speech, language, and hearing screenings for children in local preschools and daycares last month.

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A board-certified music therapist and UI doctoral candidate in music therapy, Sun Joo Lee originally aspired to become an opera singer but would experience stomach or back pain whenever she’d perform.

The students, all members of clinical professor Krista Davidson’s augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) community outreach group, presented to local paratransit drivers.

Clinical assistant professor Laura Schmitt and a group of speech-language pathology graduate students took part in a four-part workshop for care partners of individuals living with dementia.

Israel Wipf won this year’s Three Minute Thesis competition, in which graduate students share their research in three minutes or less to a general audience,