Class of 2023

Victoria Bohrer (Professor: Shae Morgan): Raising awareness of auditory processing disorder in the community

Logan Bowen (Professor: Lynzee Cornell): Survey of High School Guidance Counselors Awareness of the Audiology Profession

Meredith Del Castillo (Professor: Laura Galloway): Outreach to inform high school students about professions in Communication Disorders

Hannah Decker (Professor: Lynzee Cornell): A systematic review of Audiology programs that have Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities IDDs

Stacy Garrard (Professor: Lynzee Cornell): Cerumen impaction in individuals with disabilities due to limited jaw movement

Tiffany Hoskins (Professor: Shae Morgan): A valid test of auditory emotion recognition

Elizabeth Medlock (Professor: Laura Galloway): Does an informational presentation and scholarship opportunity increase involvements in state level audiology organizations? 

Michaela McIntosh(Professor: Lynzee Cornell): Red Bird Mission Project

Averi (Karsin) Spinks (Professor: Laura Galloway): Social media marketing and the uptake of a decision coaching guide for adults with unaddressed hearing impairment

Eleni Zarvos (Professor: Lynzee Cornell): Medical Provider Gaps in Knowledge Regarding Newborn Hearing Screening Protocols

Class of 2022

Scott Capece (Professor: Shae Morgan): Comparing high-energy visible light to antibiotics for the treatment of otitis media

Clarissa Story (Professor: Shae Morgan): Perceived emotional expression of individuals with hearing aids

Class of 2021 

Amanda Bartley (Professor: Laura Galloway): Development of the Hearing Loss Support Scale (HLSS)

Rachel Berry (Professor: Shae Morgan): High-energy visible light treatment for otitis media

Marisa Carrozza (Professors: Laura Galloway & Lynzee Cornell):The AuD curriculum should prepare graduate students to provide hearing conservation education for elementary students

Keira Glasheen (Professor: Jill Preminger):Utilizing usability testing to develop a decision coaching guide for adults with hearing loss

Lauren Langan (Professors: Laura Galloway & Lynzee Cornell): The AuD curriculum should prepare graduate students to provide hearing conservation education for elementary students

Beth Rosen (Professor: Laura Galloway):Will hearing screenings and education on noise induced hearing loss in musicians change attitudes about hearing protection in college marching band students?

Class of 2020:

Louisa Woodson (Professor: Lynzee Cornell): Put Your Best Ears Forward: Audiology, Cancer Treatment, and Communication Strategies for Everybody

Rebecca Vajda (Professor: Pavel Zahorik): Spatial Hearing Deficits in Normal-Hearing Listeners that Self-report Hearing Difficulties

Souraya Lorenz (Professor: Pavel Zahorik): Measures in Cognitive Ability in Listeners with Self-Reported Hearing Difficulties but Normal Audiograms

Sarah Irvin (Professor: Lynzee Cornell): Audiology Orientation for Incoming ENT Residents

Caitlin Holliday (Professor: Lynzee Cornell): The Effect of Personality Temperament on the Acceptable Noise Level

Emily Feibelman (Professor: Lynzee Cornell): Creating an Ototoxic Monitoring Protocol for Adult Head and Neck Cancer Patients

Brooke Dillard (Professor: Pavel Zahorik): SSQ Confirms Self-reported Hearing Difficulties for Listeners with Normal Audiograms

Cassie Conlee (Professor: Lynzee Cornell): Creating an Employee Training Program on the Importance of Hearing Aid Care

Rebecca Burden (Professor: Jill Preminger): Applying Principles of Participatory Design to Create iManage (My Hearing Loss)

Class of 2019:

Lauren Murphey (Webb) (Professor: Casey Rutledge Roof):Development of a New Low Pass Filtered Speech Test for the Diagnosis of Central Auditory Processing Disorder

Mary Sohler (Professor: Jeffrey Weihing): The Use of the Dichotic Rhyme Test for the Assessment of Central Auditory Processing Disorders (CAPD): A Review

Amber Snyder (Professor: Lynzee Cornell): Assessing Outcomes of Standardized Otoscopy Training in an Au.D. Program

Haiden Nunn (Professor: Pavel Zahorik): Development of a Rapid Test of Speech Understanding Using Reverberation and Time Compression 

Taylor Kieffer (Professor: Lynzee Cornell): The Red Bird Mission Clinic

Jessica Graham (Professor: Sharon Miller): Cortical Inhibition and Self-Reported Listening Difficulties in Background Noise

Rachel Etzler (Professor: Jeffrey Weihing): Envelope Following Response in Military Veterans Suggest Cochlear Synaptopathy

Emmie Carrico (Professor: Lynzee Cornell): The Red Bird Mission

Class of 2018:

Emily Ransdell Byorth (Professor: Jeffrey Weihing): Remote Audiology Information

Samantha Fox (Munzer) (Professor: Casey Rutledge Roof): Neural Correlates of Phonetic Categorization is Adult Cl Listeners

Jessica Minnick (Professor: Lynzee Cornell): Anxiety, Depressive Symptoms, and Spatial Perception in Head and Neck Cancer Patients

Raquel Heacock (Professor: Jill Preminger): Adult Children’s Perspectives on Their Role in Their Parents’ Hearing Healthcare:  A Quantitative Approach

Kaci Wathen (Professor: Brittany Brose): Auditory Sensory Gating Predict Acceptable Noise Level

Mary Beth Duncan (Professor: Jeffrey Weihing): Effects of Blast Exposure on Sensory Gating and Auditory Processing

Class of 2017: 

Lara Jane Wandzilak (Professor: Lynzee Cornell): The Effect of Bone Oscillator Placement on Threshold

Danielle Walker (Ross) (Professor: Lynzee Cornell): The Role of Parent-to-Parent Support Networks in Hearing Healthcare

Olivia Reed (Professor: Lynzee Cornell): The Utilization of the PHAST-R in Assessing the Validity of Hearing Aid Skills Training & Proficiency of Hearing Aid Skills to Foster Patient Self Reliance

Amanda Pigeon (Professor: Jeffrey Weihing): An Electrophysiologic Measure of Attention Switching

Elizabeth Nance (Professor: Jeffrey Weihing): Development of an iPad-Based Competing Sentence Test for Assessment of Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD)

Allison Morton (Professor: Jill Preminger): Exploring Obstacles:  Audiologists’ Insight on Delays in Identification and Intervention of Children with Hearing Loss

Kristin Lenz (Professor: Lynzee Cornell): Assessing Outcomes of Standardized Otoscopy Training in an Au.D. Program

Brittany Kyzer (Professor: Jeffrey Weihing): Evaluation of a Hearing Screening Protocol for Newly Arriving Refugee Children

Rebecca Lee (Hauff) (Professor: Jill Preminger): The Goal-Sharing for Partners Strategy (GPS)

Courtney Hart (Professor: Lynzee Cornell): Proficiency of Hearing Aid Skills to Foster Patient Self Reliance Part 2:  The Utilization of the PHAST-R in Assessing the Validity of Hearing Aid Skills Training

Lyndsey Ferrell (Professor: Lynzee Cornell): Evaluation of a Hearing Screening Protocol for Newly Arriving Refugee Children

Lauren Brenneman (Professor: Jeffrey Weihing): The Relationship Between Auditory Processing, Language, and Cognition in Children Being Evaluated for Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD)

Class of 2016:

Hanah Stigall (Bennett) (Professor: Lynzee Cornell): Survey of Humanitarian Audiologists Regarding Sustainability and Feasibility

Christopher Oldfield (Professor: Jeffrey Weihing): Dichotic Performance in Children with Autism Using a Test with Low-Task Demands:  A Pilot Study

Kara Kratzer (Monroe) (Professor: Lynzee Cornell): Redbird Mission Arual Rehabilitation and Audiologic Training

Sarah Groff (Professor: Jill Preminger): Preferred Hearing Screening by Adults in the United States

Margaret Strait (Barnett) (Professor: Jill Preminger): Perceptions of Adults with Hearing Impairment Regarding the Promotion of Trust in Hearing Healthcare Service Delivery

Class of 2015:

Erin Whitely (Adkins) (Professor: Jeffrey Weihing): Auditory P300 Evoked by Familiarity Cues in Speech

Kristen Wessel (Kostkowski) (Professor: Lynzee Cornell): Extended Stay NICU Hearing Screening Protocol Survey

Natasha Trozzolo (Stelmaszek) (Professor: Jeffrey Weihing): Isolation of Brainstem Contributions to Auditory Evoked Potentials:  An Animal Model

Carolyn Smith (Berridge) (Professor: Lynzee Cornell): Evaluation of Multiple Bone Oscillator Placements on Behavioral Thresholds within Normal Hearing Individuals

Ashley Moore (Professor: Ann Rothpletz and Jill Preminger): Acceptance of Internet-Based Hearing Healthcare in Older Adults Following an Online Hearing Healthcare Literacy Training Course

Nicholas (Nick) Leahy (Professor: Jeffrey Weihing): Effect of Presentation Level Unit-Type (dB HL vs. SL) on the Auditory Middle Latency Response

Nicole Goldowski (Professor: Lynzee Cornell): Effectiveness of Standardized Patient Labs in an Audiology Program

Amy Franz (Professor: Lynzee Cornell): Evaluation of NBHS Information in Prenatal Classes: Monetary Verses Free Registration

Class of 2014:

Laura Nesbitt (Galloway) (Professor: Jill Preminger): Group Audiologic Rehabilitation:  Justification and Implementation (Textbook Chapter)

Ali Khandani (Professor: Jeffrey Weihing): Dichotic Tests to Predict Hearing in Noise Ability in the Aging Population

Sarah Hunt (Professor: Jill Preminger): The Goal-Sharing for Partners Strategy (GPS):  A Case Study Analysis

Lisa Leen (Cramer) (Professor: Jeffrey Weihing): Characteristics of Changes to Hearing Sensitivity in College Musicians

Tiffany Brewer (Professor: Lynzee Cornell): Evaluation of Newborn Hearing Screening Information Retained:  Does Delivery Method Matter?

Class of 2013:

Lindsay Hale (Walker) (Professor: Lynzee Cornell): Evaluation of Newborn Hearing Screening Education in Prenatal Classes

Zach Moore (Professor: Jill Preminger): Hear the Music

Karah Miller (Gottschalk) (Professor: Jill Preminger): The Emotions of an Adult Child of Parents with Hearing Loss:  A Qualitative Study

Whitney Cope (Kubach) (Professor: Lynzee Cornell): Evaluation of Newborn Hearing Screening Education in Prenatal Classes

Seth Fritz (Professor: Jeffrey Weihing): Hearing Conservation Awareness with the U of L School of Music

Kathryn (Katie) Cisler (Professor: Jeffrey Weihing): Auditory Threshold Testing for the University’s School of Music Freshman

Samantha Rogers (Booth) (Professor: Lynzee Cornell): Interaction Between an FM CROS and Unilateral CI User:  A Case Study

Class of 2012:

Jessica Williams (DeGreve) (Professor: Jill Preminger): School of Music Hearing Evaluations

Tim Teague (Professor: David Cunningham): Induction Loops:  Deriving Benefit in Places of Worship

Lindsay Shroyer (Professor: Jill Preminger): Vascular Loops and Central Auditory Processing Disorders:  A Case Series

Katie Martin (Bluestein) (Professor: Jill Preminger): Educating Elder Care Staff on Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids

Katie Kendell (Professor: Lynzee Cornell): Minimal Hearing Loss and Performance Perception in Children

Rachel Burnett (Professor: David Cunningham): Probe-Microphone Measurements:  Frequency of Use and Reasons for Non-Use

Chris Berntsen (Professor: Jill Preminger): Guide for Creating a Hearing Conservation Program for a School of Music