PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders | Department of Physical Therapy
$5,300,000
Grant Funding for Faculty
16
Faculty Mentors
4
Average Years to Graduation
Best described as an “apprenticeship” program in which doctoral students work closely with a faculty member, our interdisciplinary program places less emphasis on course work and greater emphasis on the development of research, scholarship, and independent thinking skills.
PhD Spotlights
Congratulations to Taylor Snodgrass!!
Taylor Snodgrass, PhD student in Communication Sciences and Disorders concentration, working under the direction of Dr. Jamie Perry has been awarded an NIH/NIDCR F31 Predoctoral Fellowship. The title of her grant is: Evaluating Velopharyngeal Function During Phonation in Children Utilizing Static MRI. For this award she will seek to describe the typical movement of the velopharynx in children without a history of cleft palate or hypernasal speech, as this could be used for comparison to children with hypernasal speech and can benefit surgical planning for children with hypernasal speech.
Congratulations to Dr. Wyatt Bunner
Congratulations to Dr. Wyatt Bunner who successfully defended his dissertation “Understanding the role of RAB10 in neuronal resilience”. He completed his doctoral program under the direction of Dr. Erzsebet Szatmari in the movement sciences & disorders concentration. Dr. Bunner has accepted a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Gunner Poplawski’s in the Center for Immunotherapy and ImmunoOncology at the Clevelands Clinic’s Lerner Research Institute. Dr. Bunner’s initial focus will be on researching possible therapeutic interventions for glioblastoma propagation. The theme of Dr. Bunner’s new lab is the development of regenerative and diagnostic strategies for neurodegenerative diseases.”