The delightfully delicious recipes are truly from the heart and submitted by our Students, Faculty and Administrative Staff. All proceeds from the sale of this cookbook will support student participation and attendance at professional conferences. The Communicating with Food index includes:
On May 1, 2009, the Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences held its annual Student Research Day. The first part of the day was devoted to platform presentations in which audiology, doctoral, and speech-language pathology students discussed and revealed the results of their research projects. The second part of the day was devoted to a poster session displaying the research projects from the Clinical Research Methods courses. A big thank you goes out to the entire faculty, staff, and students who helped make this day such a success. Please click on 'read more' to view the presentations from Student Research Day.
This year, at the 2009 AudiologyNow! convention, Eric Bielefeld, PhD was presented with a New Investigator Research Award for his work titled, “Preservation of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss with Blockade of NADPH Oxidase.” He was featured in both the AudiologyNow! program, and on a poster displayed in the lobby of the convention. Accompanying these highlights, was a passage in which Dr. Bielefeld wrote about Dr. Donald Henderson, the individual who inspired him to become a researcher. Congratulations again Dr. Bielefeld! Please find the details in the Connections Newsletter.
OPEN HOUSE is this Friday, February 27th in the Lippschutz Room. The event begins promptly at 1:00PM but we are asking the Faculty to be present between 12:00PM and 12:30PM to meet and greet our guests.
Last summer, the faculty in the Center for Hearing and Deafness and the CDS Speech and Hearing Clinic were visited by Dr. Jerome Groopman, a medical and science writer for the New Yorker magazine and author of “How Doctors Think.” Dr. Groopman like many other people suffers from tinnitus. It was his hope that after visiting our university (which is one of the major clinical and research centers for the evaluation and study of tinnitus) that he would find answers as to what tinnitus is and how to treat it. Dr. Groopman met with Dr. Christina Stocking for a full tinnitus evaluation. Afterwards he spoke with Dr. Richard Salvi, Director of the Center for Hearing and Deafness, about positron emission brain imaging studies conducted with patients that identified regions of the brain associated with the phantom sound of tinnitus and the “neural signature” of tinnitus. Researchers in CDS are conducting neurophysiological and neuroanatomical studies in animals to identify the biological basis of tinnitus. An important aspect of these studies has been the development of animal models with tinnitus. Dr. Edward Lobarinas demonstrated how rats are behaviorally trained to “tell” the researchers when they hear the phantom sound of tinnitus resulting from noise exposure or ototoxic drugs. After Dr. Groopman’s visit and many hours of study, he wrote an article discussing the research on tinnitus being carried out at the University at Buffalo. Groopman’s article which highlights work being conduced at UB was published in the February 2009 issue of the New Yorker. This article not only explains what tinnitus is, but it pays tribute to clinical and basic research work being conducted by faculty in CDS. To view the article please click here. Image borrowed from the New Yorker Magazine.
Thursday, February 26 – 7:00 p.m.
UB, Main Street Campus, 144 Farber Hall
Featured Talk: "Brain Imaging Studies of Tinnitus and Hyperacusis”
To be presented by Jennifer R. Melcher, Ph.D. For more information please click on the 'read more' button.
Dr. Wei Sun, assistant professor in the CDS department, recently received two grants to further investigate the mechanisms of tinnitus. One of these grants was awarded by the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) entitled “How Presbycusis Affects Tinnitus.” Since tinnitus is more often seen in elderly population, this two years grant is designed to explore whether and how aging related hearing loss (presbycusis) affects tinnitus. The other grant was awarded by the Royal National Institution for Deaf People (RNID) entitled “Auditory Cortex Reorganization Related to Tinnitus and Hyperacusis.” The goal of this three year grant is to determine how central auditory reorganization is related tinnitus and hyperacusis. The results of Dr. Sun’s studies will provide important information on central reorganization and how it may contribute to the phantom noises we perceive as tinnitus.
