Communication Sciences and Disorders Ph.D. student receives ASHA scholarship

November 19th 2012
Awards, Natural & Physical Sciences
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Hoffman

Matthew Hoffman (BS'09, Zoology), an MD/Ph.D. student pursuing a Ph.D. in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, recently received a Graduate Student Scholarship from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

Hoffman studies the physiology of voice production and swallowing in normal and disordered states under the direction of Profs. Jack Jiang and Timothy McCulloch. His dissertation focuses on the development and assessment of new methods of treating vocal fold paralysis.