The mission of our department is to maintain an active research program as a source for the clinical and scientific education of our students, and as a vehicle for professional growth for our faculty. Through our commitment to academic and clinical excellence, the mission of the CDS Department continues to maintain a nationally and internationally recognized graduate program in Communicative Disorders and Sciences.

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  College of Arts and Sciences Summer Programs

  The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce some of the significant educational opportunities that are available to you this summer. They have expanded their summer offerings which now include courses in a wide variety of disciplines. These courses are open to UB students, to students attending other academic institutions, and some of our introductory courses are available to advanced high school students.

Once again, the faculty and staff of the Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences responded to the devastation following the earthquake in Haiti by donating over $500 to the American Red Cross. Previously, the Department collected donations following Hurricane Katrina. Thanks to everyone who helped!

Dr. Jeff Higginbotham was recently recognized in the Fall 2009 Research Navigator for directing the Center for Excellence in Augmented Communication and the center's Communication and Assistive Device Laboratory. This article explains the work being accomplished in Dr. Higginbotham's lab as well as other labs at the University at Buffalo. For the detailed story, please see the issue of Research Navigator Fall 2009.

The 2010 College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Commencement Ceremony is scheduled on Friday, May 7, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. in the UB Center for the Arts Mainstage Theatre.

In case you have not already registered, candidates must register online at: http://cas.buffalo.edu/students/graduate/commencement.php

The deadline to register is Friday, March 26, 2010.

The CDS department is pleased to announce the collaboration of Richard Salvi and Dalian Ding in the Center for Hearing and Deafness with a research group at the University of Wisconsin. Together, they identified 3 dietary supplements that prevent age related hearing loss and a genetic pathway that plays an important role in development of age related hearing loss (presbycusis). Their findings were published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a very prestigious scientific journal. The paper is entitled Age-related hearing loss in C57BL/6J mice is mediated by Bak-dependent mitochondrial apoptosis and can be viewed by clicking on the [read more] section.