From left: Cynthia Chow, Jenna Woestman and Trista Fugate.
Three graduate students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders won awards at last month's Wisconsin Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology Association State Convention Research Symposium.
Cynthia Chow, a fourth-year graduate student in the Au.D./Ph.D. program, won first place. Chow's research investigates the treatment of hearing loss through regeneration of cochlear hair cells.
Trista Fugate, a third-year graduate student in the Au.D. program, and Jenna Woestman, a third-year graduate student in the Doctor of Audiology program, conducted a research project together and took second place. The focus of their project was investigating the hearing health status of the out of hospital birth populations throughout Wisconsin.