2021 Funding Awardees

Clinical Faculty Scholarship Grant

Tatiana Pontes, Department of Occupational Therapy
Project: Psychometric evaluation of the Occupational Repertoire Development Measure: validity and reliability analysis


Shelly DeBiasse, Department of Health Sciences
Project: Dress Codes for Dietetics Programs: A Discourse Analysis

Mary Beth Holmes, Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training


Lisa Brown, Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training
Project: A Survey of Clinical Practice and Perceived Needs of Physical Therapist for the Use of Ankle Foot Orthosis and Functional Electrical Stimulation

Leanne Yinusa-Nyahkoon, Department of Occupational Therapy
Project: CLOTHES: Clinical Lab of Occupational Therapy and Health Equity at Sargent

Innovations in Teaching and Learning Grant

Alyssa Boucher, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Project: From Infused Curriculum to Explicit Teaching: Toward Effective Pedagogy to Promote Antiracist and Inclusive Practices in Speech-Language Pathology

Dori Hutchinson, Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Project: LEAD Español: A Collegiate Resilience Program for Spanish-speaking BU Students

Anne Sullivan-Soydan, Department of Occupational Therapy
Project:  Empathy Everywhere


Shelley Brown, Department of Health Sciences
Project: Developing a Strategic Public Health Workforce at the Undergraduate Level

Student Research Grant

Anna Roto, PhD program in Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training
Project: Enhancing poststroke exercise intensity with a gait-restorative soft robotic exosuit: effects on brain-derived neurotrophic factor and motor learning

Katherine Marks, doctoral fellowDepartment of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Project: Validation of a Novel Acoustic Outcome for Adductor Laryngeal Dystonia

Ran Li, PhD in Speech-Language PathologyDepartment of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Project: Investigation of language impairment and treatment-induced recovery patterns between verbs and nouns in Mandarin-English bilinguals with aphasia

Alexandra Kapadia, PhD in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Project: Intracortical myelin network organization in dyslexia

Jenna Zajac, PhD program in Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training
Project: MedRhythms: Analysis of Motor Learning and Impact on Gait Performance in Parkinson Disease