SLHS Students Shine at University Events

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Three side by side images of student researchers and faculty advisors smiling at camera

SLHS students were well represented at several University Events.  We had multiple students take part in the 2025 Franke Honor’s Pinnacle.  This event allows Honor’s students to shine and share their work via a poster format. This year, there were over 185 students presenting.  Our SLHS community was represented via:  

Haley Hinrichs and Emily Lopez (mentored by Dr. Leah Kapa)

  • Hayley’s work was a thesis on Behavior and Attention in Children with DLD
  • Emily’s work was a thesis on Examining the use of Social and Private Speech During Cognitive Task Performance of Children with and without Developmental Language Disorders

Ashley Mentor, whose work won her 3rd prize in the thesis category! (mentored by Dr. Genesis Arizmendi)

  • Ashley’s work was a thesis on Barriers and Facilitators to Diversity in Speech-Language Pathology

NSCS students Noah Frazier and Riley Weber (mentored by SLHS faculty Aneta Kielar and Post-Doc Katlyn Nickels)

  • Riley’s work was a thesis on Transcranial Direct Stimulation Neurorehabilitation in Neural Correlates of Primary Progressive Aphasia Syndromes
  • Noah’s work was a UBRP thesis on Neuroimaging and Computational Methods Informing Individualized targeting of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) for treatment of Primary Progressive Aphasia

Two student groups were sharing work that had been funded with the $10K Honor’s College Mini Grant:
Zahra Siddiqui and Elissa Schiff (mentored by Dr. Mary Alt) 

  • Their thesis was creating and hosting the Research-Based Approaches for Multilingual Practice (RAMP) Conference

NSCS students Madeleine Daly, Arpita Gulati, and Famesh Patel (mentored by SLHS faculty Julie Miller)

  • Their thesis was called “The silence before the storm: Understanding Earlier Parkinson’s Disease Detection through Vocal and Molecular analysis.”

You can check out each of these posters at this link: https://frankehonors.arizona.edu/pinnacle-2025-presenters

SLHS was also well represented at the Sonoran Center for Excellence in Disabilities’ Annual Trainee Symposium. Several SLHS students presented their work including:

  • Michaela Hoyman, whose project was “Sweet or Salty? A comparison of the SUGAR and SALT language sample analyses.” (Mentored by Becky Vance)
  • Lauren Mitchell and Sophia Westphal, whose project was “The effect of sex and age related differences on late-talking toddlers in response to treatment.” (Mentored by Mary Alt)

We are proud of our students’ accomplishments and thankful for our staff and faculty mentors.

Student researcher with faculty advisor in front of research poster
Undergraduate researcher with faculty advisor in front of research poster