Awards and Honors

The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association has selected Barry Guitar, professor of communications sciences and disorders, as a recipient of the Honors of the Association, the highest award given by the organization. The award is public recognition of exceptional contributions to the field of speech, language and hearing over the course of a career. The award will be formally presented Nov. 13 at the association’s convention in Denver. Read more about Guitar’s career.

Scott Hamshaw, a doctoral candidate in the Civil & Environmental Engineering program, has been selected to receive a 2015 Switzer Environmental Fellowship. He’s one of 22 members of this year’s class of the prestigious program and will apply his $15,000 fellowship to continue his research on "advanced computational methods to characterize sediment transport in river systems,” he says. He works with professor Donna Rizzo in the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. Read more.

Publications and Presentations

Garrison Nelson, professor of political science, has served as an expert voice in the media for the upcoming U.S. presidential election with a special focus on Sen. Bernie Sanders. He has appeared in CBS News; the Boston Globe; Los Angeles Times; Vermont Public Radio; Politico; and the Terre Haute (Indiana) Tribune-Star, among others.