Hear the Turtle
Issue: Spring 2019
HESP by the Numbers At a recent alumni event, Department Chair Newman provided some updates on how the department has changed and grown over the past few years. Here are some highlights: PhD students over time
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2018-2019
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We have also been actively growing our research activities, as can be seen
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2009-2010
First, the department’s PhD program is growing rapidly in both quality and numbers, as show in the graph to the right. (The SLP and AuD programs would certainly grow if we allowed them to do so!)
both in terms of amounts of grant funding and in faculty publication rates (left).
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Total faculty publications per year
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But perhaps more importantly, it also shows up in terms of STUDENT publication rates.
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The graph to the right shows the number of HESP students on published papers or conference papers per year - just 7 years ago we had roughly 5 student-authored papers per year, but now we are upwards of 20, a 4-fold increase!
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Number of HESP students on published papers or conference presentations per year (excluding papers from before joining department)
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Presentations
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