Ph.D. Program in Hearing and Speech Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park

Fri Oct 10 18:37:40 UTC 2014

The Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences (HESP) at the University of Maryland (UMD), College Park is accepting applicants to its Ph.D. program. This program emphasizes research and scholarly achievement, and is designed to foster intellectual independence in the disciplines of normal and/or disordered processes of speech, language, or hearing. Students engage in an integrated set of research activities and scholarship to prepare them for successful careers in academic and research settings. The program entails four to five years of full-time study, which includes graduate-level coursework, research and professional development seminars, a candidacy project, and a dissertation. Regular interactions with faculty mentor(s) enable students to define their own areas of interest, promoting a dynamic, energetic, and collaborative research environment. This year, we will admit approximately 2-3 Ph.D. students. These trainees will join a vibrant community of students who are among the most successful in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences to obtain external funding. Our Ph.D. students routinely present their work at major national and international conferences, publish in high-impact journals, and secure prestigious positions upon graduation.

OPPORTUNITIES. Ours is a fundamentally translational field, and HESP graduate students can leverage society's emerging interest in translational science through our active clinic and top-rated clinical training programs, which together provide openings for conducting basic-plus-applied research. The Ph.D. in HESP is not a clinical degree, but students are invited to integrate the department's clinical resources into their program to inform their research. Overall, trainees will have access to internationally recognized scientists and laboratories equipped with state-of-the-art resources including: eye-tracking systems for psycholinguistic reading and spoken language studies in young children and adults; sound-proof testing rooms for speech- and auditory-perception experiments in young and older populations; preferential-looking setups for language development research in infants; electrophysiological recording systems for hearing measures; various neuroimaging facilities (e.g., fMRI, MEG, EEG) at the Maryland Neuroimaging Center (www.mnc.umd.edu/<http://www.mnc.umd.edu/>); the Aphasia Research Center (http://aphasia.umd.edu/); and other behavioral testing suites outfitted for studying normal and disordered groups (acquired and developmental). Current research combines cognitive, linguistic, computational, and/or neurobiological approaches to study language development, processing, and disorders throughout the lifespan. Our program prepares students to unify these methods through an interdisciplinary approach and convergent investigation of the mechanisms supporting language development, processing, and plasticity. For a list of HESP labs and faculty interests, visit http://hesp.umd.edu/content/labs-collaborations-and-initiatives. For a program overview, see http://hesp.umd.edu/content/program-highlights-doctoral-program-hearing-and-speech-sciences.

CAMPUS COMMUNITY. Trainees will benefit from well-established connections to related communities on Maryland's campus, including the Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (http://www.nacs.umd.edu/), the Maryland Language Science Center (http://languagescience.umd.edu/), the Center for the Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing (http://www.ccebh.umd.edu/), and the Center for Advanced Study of Language (http://www.casl.umd.edu<http://www.casl.umd.edu/>). Existing interdisciplinary collaborations include cooperative co-mentorship arrangements with faculty within the department and across different departments such as Psychology and Linguistics. UMD is home to the largest and most integrated community of language scientists in North America.

BROADER COMMUNITY. The College Park campus is located in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area in close proximity to numerous world-renowned medical institutions and research facilities including the NIH, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Johns Hopkins University, Children's National Medical Center, and the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where cross-institutional collaborations routinely occur, permitting students to explore specialized research interests.
APPLICATION PATHS. Successful applicants will have well-defined research interests and prior research experience, and are accepted into the program as a whole, not into particular subfields. Trainees enter our doctoral program in several ways. Some apply directly following their Bachelor's degree or a clinical degree in the field (e.g., M.A. in Speech-Language Pathology; Au.D. in Clinical Audiology) or pursue a joint degree program, in which they complete both the clinical degree and the research Ph.D. at Maryland (e.g., Au.D./Ph.D. and M.A./Ph.D.). Others apply to the Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (NACS), and select HESP as their home department. The application deadline for Fall 2015 admission to the Ph.D. Program in HESP is January 15, 2015 (http://hesp.umd.edu/content/how-apply). The application deadline for Fall 2015 admission to the Ph.D. Program in NACS is December 1, 2014 (http://www.nacs.umd.edu/program/apply.html).

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