Awards and Grants

SCHOLARSHIPS

Ashley Connor, Kiana Ayers received the Barbara Kahn Scholarship; a total of $3,500 was awarded. Outstanding scholars from the Fall 2021 incoming graduate class were awarded $11,700 from the College of Health

Sciences Gordon S. & Charlott Myers Scholarships and Paul Stock Scholarships, $1000 from the Yagi Multicultural Scholarship in Communication Disorders and $1000 from the Dr. Thom And Terry Flamboe Graduate Fellowship In Speech-Language

Pathology. Josephine Cox, Kimberly Quincy, Abby Brunski, Libby Heimbaugh, Lindsey Baker, Erika Jones, Stacy Jones, Marissa LeDoux and

Katelan Rogers received the Steve Elliott Communication Disorders Scholarship; a total of $8,425 was awarded to these students.

Total University of Wyoming Scholarships Awarded: $25,625

Graduate Assistantships

The university funded 7 Graduate Assistantships for incoming 2021 graduate students, for approximately $21,671 (each) of support. The recipients are Samantha

Power, Ann “Ellie” Dahill, Richelle Dietz, Rachel

Forrester, Sarah Marcus, Mikayla Benson and Brynn

Batemann. Also, the Utah Regional Leadership

Education in Neurodevelopmental and related

Disabilities (URLEND) funded Josie Cox as a second year graduate assistant.

Total Number of Graduate Assistantship awards: 7

Academic Excellence Awards

Undergraduate students receiving the Honors in Academic

Excellence Award were Heather Casey, Richelle Dietz,

Hannah Ozmon, Mandi Baxendale and Samantha Power. Graduate students receiving the

Honors in Academic Excellence

Award include Calbi Ausmann,

Erin Buchanan, Nicole Gard,

Summer Hansen, Madison Haun,

Catherine Kellar and Jordan Ring.

Student Awards

• Isabella Mijares, Summer INBRE award (research assistantship) (2021) • Isabella Mijares, Wyoming Research Scholars Program • Samantha Power, Best Research Abstract Award: (2021) “A Preliminary Investigation of Palatoglassus Morphology in

Children using MRI” • Richelle Dietz – 3rd Place, Oral Presentations Competition, University of Wyoming College of Health Science Research Day • Nicole Gard, Erin Buchanan, Adan Arredondo, Calbi Aussman and Madison Haun – WYOSHA Awards • Samantha Power – ASHA Students Preparing for Academic Research Careers Award • Samantha Power – ASHA Meritorious Poster Award, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Convention, San Diego, CA *Canceled due to COVID-19 but award still given

Other Faculty Grants & Awards

Krueger, Breanna. ASHA Foundation Speech Science Research Grant Interpretation of Misarticulated Words by Children with Speech Sound Disorders Guiberson, Mark. Mountain West Clinical & Translational Research Infrastructure Network PPEG research award. Telehealth

Practices for Developmental Language Disorders in Young Native Americans. Funding source: Funded by a grant from the

National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health: #: 1U54GM104944 Hardin-Jones, Mary Research, PHS Grant, A comparative effectiveness study of speech and surgical treatments using a Cleft Palate

Registry/Research Outcomes Network. National Institute of Dental Research. Investigator: (Principal Investigator: Kathy L.

Chapman, Ph.D. University of Utah). 17 participating Medical Institutions. 3/2018-3/2023. M.A. Hardin-Jones; 2021 College of Health Sciences Outstanding Researcher, University of Wyoming Hartsky, Esther. Wyoming Innovations in Learning 2020 Teaching Award.