More than a dozen OSU students presented posters at the Oklahoma Speech-Language-Hearing Association conference this weekend. Four posters came from students in my DXDX project, one was on our word/voice gender project, and one was a study proposal from my Evidence-Based Practice class. Other OSU labs also presented work, as did labs from other universities -- the largest poster session in years! 

I had a good time at the Acoustical Society of America conference in Chicago. I participated in an invited panel with my co-author Sara Loss that Ben Munson organized about infusing social justice into acoustics pedagogy. We showed the sad null results we've gotten so far on our quest to find classroom interventions to help undergrads understand international instructors better (both in terms of intelligibility and attitudes). We got some good ideas for next steps, and we're not ready to give up yet (maybe we're measuring something different from what we're affecting). 

I participated in ASHA's Lessons for Success program, a three-day intensive grant-prep workshop.  Their Pathways program was similar a few years ago, with a focus on writing your first grant. LfS focuses on the grant-review process, including mock reviews of participants' past unfunded grants - very useful experience! I also enjoyed getting to know my colleague Roha Kaipa better, as we flew together and got rerouted to avoid storms coming back. 

Seven of my students presented four posters at the OSU Undergraduate Research Symposium: two from my Deaf Experience, Deaf Expression (DXDX) Project, one from a project on word gender, and one for her senior thesis. See more on the Projects page.

My paper with my former student Molly Landers (now a PhD student at Michigan State) has been accepted to the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences in Prague this August! It outlines several Possible back prelateral mergers in Oklahoma.

I taught a full-day minicourse/workshop at the Linguistic Society of America conference in Denver last week. A good group of grad students and faculty attended; we walked through various methods of remote sociophonetic data collection and discussed their really interesting project ideas. My co-author Sara Loss also gave a talk on our project about supporting better communication between undergrads and international students, TAs, and faculty. It was great to see so many old friends and colleagues, and the American Dialect Society Word of the Year was quite amusing this year!