HEALTH SCIENCES

Joan Salge Blake, clinical professor of nutrition, received the Media Excellence Award from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND).

Leslie Caiola (’21) was named the 2020 Outstanding Dietetics Student by AND.

Michele DeBiasse, clinical associate professor of nutrition, received a Diversity & Inclusion Promotion Grant from AND.

Maura Walker, research assistant professor of nutrition, received a Career Development Award from the American Heart Association.

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

Wendy Coster, professor of occupational therapy, received the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA)/American Occupational Therapy Foundation (AOTF) joint Presidents’ Award.

Occupational therapy professors Ellen Cohn, Wendy Coster, and Gael Orsmond received the Community Partner Award from MAB Community Services/Ivy Street School.

Karen Jacobs, associate dean for digital learning and innovation and clinical professor of occupational therapy, received the Outstanding Mentor Award from AOTA.

Robin Newman, clinical assistant professor of occupational therapy, was named to the AOTA Roster of Fellows.

Elizabeth Schmidt, postdoctoral associate, received a Switzer Research Fellowship from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research.

PHYSICAL THERAPY

Terry Ellis, associate professor of physical therapy and director of the BU Center for Neurorehabilitation, was named a Catherine Worthingham Fellow by the American Physical Therapy Association.

Tim Nordahl, physical therapist in the BU Center for Neurorehabilitation, was elected to the board of the Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy.

Michael Lopez (’18,’20) received the American Physical Therapy Association Massachusetts Chapter Ruth Hall Award.

SPEECH, LANGUAGE, AND HEARING SCIENCES

Swathi Kiran was named the inaugural James and Cecilia Tse Ying Professor in Neurorehabilitation at Sargent College.

Defne Abur (’21) and Natalie Gilmore (’20), speech, language, and hearing sciences PhD students, received New Century Scholars Doctoral Scholarships from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation.

Abur also received an NIH/NIDCD grant for her work on motor phenotypes of Parkinson’s disease.