Category: Alumni

Category: Alumni

BU Today: Hearing Aid of the Future

(3/7/14) Feature on Sargent professor of speech, language and hearing sciences Gerald Kidd. “Typical hearing aids may not help much in some situations, Kidd says—they amplify everything, even those voices and sounds you want to tune out. One hearing aid in development tries to fix this by using the wearer’s head movements to guide the […]

MedPage Today: Nutrition and ICU- Early Marker for Survival

(1/14/14) Instructor Kris M. Mogensen quoted. Expert quote: “We found that in a large population of adult critical illness survivors, malnutrition near ICU admission is a robust predictor of 30-day readmission rate. It is clear that ICU patients who survive to hospital discharge suffer significant long-term morbidity and mortality. Malnutrition may be a prognostic and […]

Girgenrath Awarded Grant to Study Congenital Muscular Dystrophy

Mahasweta Girgenrath, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Health Sciences and director of the Muscle Disorders and Regenerative Biology Laboratory at BU Sargent College was recently awarded a two-year, $100,000 grant from the congenital muscular dystrophy organization CURE CMD. Girgenrath’s project, “Inhibition of Angiotensin II Signaling in Congenital Muscular Dystrophy Type 1A” will study […]

Boston Herald: BU Funds Co. to Expand Brain Injury Research App

(2/25/14) “An app based on Boston University’s research into brain injuries caused by stroke has gotten a cash injection from the school to help promote and expand the company…The rehab activities are based on research done at BU Sargent College by Dr. Swathi Kiran, co-founder and chief scientist of Constant Therapy.” View full article.

Health Sciences Research Seminar Series – 2/26/14

“Impact of an Adapted Smarter Lunchroom Intervention for Youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities” Kristie Hubbard, PhD, MPH, RD Postdoctoral Scholar Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy Tufts University, Boston, MA Wednesday, February 26, 2014 1:00-2:00pm Boston University Sargent College, Room 220 635 Commonwealth Avenue Hosted by Dr. Linda Bandini – Refreshments will be […]