Lab News and Happenings

Summer 2022

Find us at the Rochester Museum and Science Center and other community spaces in Western New York this summer!

Spring 2022

End of the Semester Lab Party!

Lab members had a blast tie-dyeing lab coats for our community events!

Research Assistants
Dr. Chris
Research Assistants
Finished Product!

Laura Roberts, MS, CCC-SLP joined us to share her clinical expertise and insight on speech therapy in patients with Parkinson’s Disease. Thank you so much Laura!

Lab meeting with Laura

Lab members met some fun animals and raptors while conducting the Phonetic Plasticity in Community Contexts study at the Rochester Museum and Science Center!

RMSC – 2022
RMSC – 2022
RMSC – 2022
February 23rd, 2022

Dr. Chris was invited to Buffalo Museum of Science for a Science Stage Show during National Engineers Week! With his “Now You Hear It, Now You Don’t” presentation, Chris took the audience on a journey through some of the properties of sound and how we hear.

Dr. Chris – BMoS 2022
Dr. Chris explaining waveforms!

Fall 2021

Some of our lab members conducting the Phonetic Plasticity in Community Contexts study at the Rochester Museum and Science Center!

RMSC – 2021
RMSC – 2021
2021 End of the semester lab celebration!
November 18th, 2021

Dr. Chris Heffner and fellow Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences junior faculty received New Investigator Research Grants. This grant will help support Chris’ novel research on Speech Perception in Parkinson’s Disease. Read all about it in this UB Now Article!

https://www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/2022/01/cds-grants.html