HESP Department Chair, Samira Anderson, Receives 2026 Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award

We are proud to congratulate Samira Anderson on receiving the University of Maryland’s Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award, presented on Wednesday September 9th, during the Faculty and Staff Convocation ceremony. 

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Individual Differences in Phoneme Categorization Relate to Speech-in-Noise Performance and are Predicted by Structure and Function of Auditory Brain Regions

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Beyond the Audiogram: What Extended High Frequency Hearing Reveals About Auditory Function

Humans can hear well beyond the 8 kHz ceiling of the clinical audiogram, yet hearing at extended high frequencies (EHFs, 10 to 16 kHz) can be substantially impaired even when conventional thresholds are entirely normal.

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Listening to What the Fish Say About Hearing Loss

A side project on salmon ears led Allison Coffin (Ph.D. '05, biological sciences) to a biomedical sciences career she never expected.   For Allison Coffin (Ph.D. ’05, biological sciences), a love for biology started with a shark. 

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