Brielle Stark '12 of Indiana University Bloomington Awarded Research Grant
, an Assistant Professor in the Speech and Hearing Sciences department at Indiana University Bloomington received a $10,000 during the 2019 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention, held Nov. 21-23 in Orlando, Fla.
A psychology major, Stark was awarded a during her senior year to study clinical neurosciences at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, U.K., where she earned her Ph.D. in neuroscience.
The New Investigators Research Grant supports preliminary studies from new investigators who have earned their doctorate degree within the last five years.
Stark will collect data on the speaking abilities of people with aphasia, which is a language disorder affecting nearly two million people in the U.S. Aphasia is most often caused by a stroke but can also be caused by a traumatic brain injury and other related, acquired brain injuries and diseases.
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