As we end the year, there is a lot to celebrate from our lab! Below, we’ve highlighted some of the many exciting accomplishments and events for the folks in our group.
Awards
Misaki Kato won a number of awards to help her complete her dissertation including: The Lokey Doctoral Science Fellowship, the Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences Dissertation Research Award, and the National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations Dissertation Support Grant.
Kayla Walker and Chasen Afghani both won awards from the Vice President for Research and Innovation’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program. Kayla was a VPRI fellow this summer, and Chasen won a mini-grant to complete her honors thesis. Kayla was also awarded the Center for Undergraduate Research and Engagement Travel Award to present her thesis at the Acoustical Society of America meeting in San Diego.
Melissa Baese-Berk was named the David M. and Nancy L. Petrone Faculty Scholar at the University of Oregon.
Publications and Presentations
The lab and our collaborators published 6 journal articles this year, including papers in Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, Journal of Phonetics, and Phonetica.
The lab and our collaborators also published 4 proceedings papers in the Proceedings for the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.
In addition to these 4 proceedings presentations at ICPhS in Australia, we had 9 other conference presentations this year.
We have continued our lab tradition of outreach and publication to the general public with four public-facing articles this year (two by Melissa, one by postdoc Zack Jaggers, and one co-authored by Zack & Melissa)!
Hellos and Goodbyes
This year, we welcomed many new lab members including two new PhD students: Kurtis Foster & Cecelia Staggs, and 6 new undergraduate research assistants: Ashlynn Hawkinson, Spencer Hutchinson, Katie LeMoine, Sydney Ozmat, Maggie Wallace, and Allegra Wesson.
We also cheered our graduates on! This year, Cydnie Davenport and Jennie Shen both completed honors theses. Zac Post and Zach Houghton also earned Bachelor’s degrees.
Dr. Amos Teo completed his PhD and moved on to work for Amazon. We miss him (and all of our graduates) but are excited to see what they do next!
We are looking forward to a great year in 2020 - continuing to celebrate our accomplishments and conduct high quality research in the lab! We wish all of you a wonderful New Year!