Archived News

  • Welcome Jessica Huber and Brendan Fitzgerald
    6/12/25
    We are excited to welcome two UB alums back as faculty in our department: Jessica Huber and Brendan Fitzgerald. 
  • Activities over the weekend 9/23/23
    6/12/25
    The graduate and undergraduate students in the Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences participated in two fundraisers over the weekend.
  • Three Tenure-Track Faculty Members Received New Investigators Research Grants
    4/21/23
    Drs. Nichol Castro, Thea Knowles, and Chris Heffner received 2021 New Investigators Research Grants from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation. This prestigious award is given to promising young investigators for research in speech-language pathology and audiology. Each year, the Foundation award about 10 young investigators, and this year the foundation awarded three to CDS faculty members. This is an exceptional achievement for our young faculty. We congratulate them on their success.
  • Dr. Gail Seigel receives Scientific Research Partners Award
    4/11/24
    Dr. Gail M. Seigel received a Scientific Research Partners Award from the Fight for Sight Foundation on October 24th, 2022 in New York City.
  • CDS attended "A Buffalo Knockout of Parkinson's: fundraiser
    4/11/24
    Clinical faculty and graduate students from The University at Buffalo Speech-Language and Hearing Clinic – Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences attended “A Buffalo Knockout of Parkinson’s” fundraiser hosted by Michael J. Fox Foundation board member and former US congressman, Jack Quinn, at The Westin Buffalo on Thursday, October 20, 2022. The program included a panel discussion featuring 60 Minutes and CBS News correspondent, Lesley Stahl, whose husband lived with Parkinson’s disease, and Dean Eoannou, founder of Parkinson’s Boxing. Also included were Allison Brashear, Vice President of Health Sciences and Dean of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo and Mark Frasier, Co-chief Science Officer at The Michael J. Fox Foundation.