Faculty from the department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, and colleagues from Electrical and Computer Engineering, Linguistics, Psychology, Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, Special Education, and Biology, were recently awarded a new grant from the National Institutes on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders to start a new program called UMD-REACH.  

UMD-REACH (Research Equity and Access in Communication and Hearing) is a program designed to address the critical need to increase ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic diversity in the field of communication sciences and disorders. To that end, UMD-REACH provides a year-long paid training program to increase lab participation among underrepresented undergraduate students. 

Students accepted into the program will:

• participate in labs 10 hrs/week during the academic year, and full-time (40 hrs/week) for 10 weeks during the summer
• receive wages ($15/hour) and summer housing to allow them the time to commit to the program.
• receive mentorship and professional development training to increase their future academic success and interest in research careers.

To learn more, visit umd-reach.umd.edu