Support for Research & Scholarship
We are proud to stimulate research and creativity on the frontiers of hearing health — scholarship and invention aimed at helping individuals recover and experience the joy of communication through sound. We regularly hold seminars and symposia that are open to all. Through these engagement opportunities, we bring our approach to holistic hearing health, demonstrating what we learned, to as broad a community as possible. Follow us on social media to learn the latest on upcoming events.
Moreover, we directly sponsor research and scholarship of our Fellows through the Knowles Leadership Fund.
Seminars
Our seminars are opportunities for our community to engage in a direct and personal way with extraordinary scholars of hearing health from around the world. Our invited speakers present their research findings and insights in a public venue and are available to answer questions and respond to comments from our academic and lay audiences.
Upcoming
Heather Malyuk, AuD
Owner, Soundcheck Audiology
Monday, May 20, 2025
1pm – 2pm
Frances Searle Bldg
2240 Campus Drive, Room 3417
Evanston, IL
Management of Hearing Loss and Hearing Disorders in The Music Industry
For Music Industry Professionals, Music-Induced Hearing Loss (MIHL) and Music-Induced Hearing Disorders (MIHD) can devastate both the vocations and the identities of the affected individuals. Beyond facing potential economic hardship from lost employment, affected individuals may also face mental health challenges as they “re-learn” how to play their most valuable instrument: their own hearing. For some, hearing aids may successfully reconnect them with their industry, but often,alternative amplification must be utilized. For those struggling with MIHD, management strategies, counseling, and amplification, at the least, should be considered, both in relation to personal communication with others and also in relation to their professional life immersed in sound. As many individuals in this industry are exposed to hazardous noise levels, protecting their hearing remains paramount. This presentation will focus on the practical applications of amplification, disorder management, and counseling as they relate to working on, behind, or off-stage for Music Industry Professionals. Specifically, alternative amplification and management strategies will be discussed, along with a case study of diplacusis.
Bio
Dr. Heather Malyuk, owner of Soundcheck Audiology, is a musician and audiologist who hails from Northeast Ohio, but is known internationally as a clinician and public speaker in the field of music audiology. She received an undergraduate degree in Music History and Literature from the University of Akron and continued on to earn her Doctor of Audiology (AuD) degree from Kent State University. In 2020, she co-authored the clinical consensus document for Audiological Services for Music Industry Personnel through the American Academy of Audiology, she is a former Leadership Advisory Team for the National Hearing Conservation Association, as well as a former co-chair of the College Music Society’s Committee on Musicians’ Health.
She is passionate about new delivery models for audiologic care and is the Head of Audiology for Tuned, a groundbreaking virtual audiology clinic. In addition to her clinical and educational work, Heather developed and manages the first-ever hearing wellness video curriculum for the music industry, is a sought-after consultant and author, and is a research team member with various groups around the United States.
Janina Fels, PhD
Professor, DirectorChair and Institute for Hearing Technology and Acoustics
RWTH Aachen University
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Time TBD
Frances Searle Bldg
2240 Campus Drive, Room 3417
Evanston, IL
Bringing the real world into the lab: Hearing research in interactive virtual environments
The understanding of auditory cognitive processes and abilities, ranging from perception, attention, and memory to complex performances such as scene analysis and communication, has advanced considerably in recent years. To this end, well-controlled but often unrealistic stimulus presentations have been used. These have included simple instances of virtual environments. Audiovisual Virtual Reality (VR) has reached a high level of perceptual plausibility, overcoming some of the limitations of simple laboratory settings, with recent developments in hardware and software technologies. Interactive auditory VR is now available and even applicable to non-specialized labs, where humans can interact with the auditory scene. This allows for real-time adaptation of complex auditory input to the listener's ears. The increased use of such interactive VR technology in laboratory settings is expected to contribute to the understanding of auditory perception in complex audiovisual scenes that are closer to real life, including acoustically challenging situations such as classrooms, open-plan offices, noisy multi-talker communication, and outdoor scenarios. However, understanding the extent to which classical theories of auditory cognition and related empirical findings are applicable within representative interactive audiovisual VR is an important consideration in bringing real life into the laboratory. This talk will present recent examples of research currently being conducted by the Institute of Hearing Technology and Acoustics (IHTA) at RWTH Aachen University. A particular focus is on our studies of activity-based acoustic situations in primary schools, where we analyze classroom noise, attention, and listening effort using audiovisual VR methods. These advances will be discussed in relation to the future of interdisciplinary approaches that combine auditory perception and processing and audiovisual VR in the study of hearing.
Bio
Janina Fels is a full professor and director of the "Chair and Institute for Hearing Technology and Acoustics" at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, since 2020. From 2012 to 2020, she was Professor for Medical Acoustics at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. She studied electrical engineering (diploma 2002) at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, where she received her PhD from the Institute of Technical Acoustics (PhD 2008). In 2009, she was a post-doc at the "Center for Applied Hearing Research (CAHR)" at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and Widex, Denmark. From 2012 to 2015, she was also a visiting scientist at the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Structural and Functional Organization of the Brain (INM-1) at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. In 2013, she was awarded the Lothar Cremer Prize by the German Acoustics Society for her innovative and pioneering work in the field of binaural technology and medical acoustics. In 2014, she was appointed to the Young College of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 2017, she received the FAMOS für Familie Award for efforts in family-friendliness management, sustainable leadership and healthy work-life balance from the RWTH Aachen University.
In 2019, she was awarded with the Best Paper Award of the “Journal of the Audio Engineering Society”. In 2021, she received the Brigitte-Gilles-Award, which recognizes projects and initiatives that improve the conditions for study, teaching and research for women at the university. In 2020, she was elected as a Review Board Member for Acoustics of the German Research Foundation (DFG). She was General Co-Chair of the DAGA 2016 conference (Annual Conference on Acoustics in Germany) and Vice-Chair of the International Congress on Acoustics, ICA 2019, in Aachen, Germany. Her research interests include expanding interdisciplinary research in the field of perception and processing of sound in complex acoustic environments for various listener groups. She studies perception and communication in complex acoustic scenarios, for example, noise exposure in classrooms or open-plan offices. She develops methods that allow listening experiments in artificially created complex acoustic scenes to be as lifelike as possible, using advanced technical systems.
Previous
Author, Speaker, Advocate
Soundtrack of Silence: Love, Loss, and a Playlist for Life
The Vollum Institute, Oregon Health Sciences University
Celebrating the Distinguished Achievements of James R. Bartles, Ph.D.
The Vollum Institute, Oregon Health Sciences University
Developmental Assembly of the Hair Bundle
Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology
Selective glutamate receptor antagonism suppresses excitotoxicity in cochlear nerve fibers to prevent effects of noise trauma while maintaining hearing function
National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Inhibition of Auditory Efferent Neurons
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The Benefits, Limitations, and Potential of Bilateral Cochlear Implants
The University of Texas Dallas
Optimizing Early Communication Outcomes with Cochlear Implants Using Spoken Language
Washington University of St. Louis School of Medicine
Mechanisms of Sound-Induced Synaptic Disintegration in the Organ of Corti
Boys Town National Research Hospital
What can studying children who wear hearing aids tell us about auditory development?
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Speech and Hearing Science
Assessing Audiovisual Spoken Word Recognition in Listeners with Hearing Loss
Karolinska Institutet
Circadian Regulation of Auditory Function
University of Chicago, Department of Neurobiology
Vestibular hair cells and afferents: Driving fast reflexes
Boston University, College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College
Understanding speech in complex environments: The benefits of a "visually-guided hearing aid" for solving the "cocktail party problem"
Washington State University Vancouver
Protecting our hearing, one fish at a time: hair cell death and protection in a zebrafish model system
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Emergence of Hearing and Language in Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users
Baylor College of Medicine
The Challenges of Regeneration of the Mammalian Cochlea
Southern Illinois University
Plasticity and the Danger of Low-hanging Fruit: Central Auditory Neurotransmission in Aging and Tinnitus
University of California Los Angeles
Ground sound detection in golden moles: Compensating for reduced vision with geophone ears
Alto University
Real-world (almost) caused brain activity
University of Wisconsin
Sounds and Meanings working together: Word learning as a collaborative effort
Harvard Medical School
Making sense of sound: spiral ganglion neuron development and function
University of Arizona
The Pitch of Harmonic Sound
Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland
From Sound to Meaning – Dynamic Transformations in Auditory Signal-Processing
Research Professor, Neurology School of Medicine; Research Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior School of Biological Sciences, University of California – Irvine
Hearing disorders, accompanying disorders of the auditory nerve, and hair cell ribbon synapses
Department of Audiology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear
After the Noise Stops: Cochlear Nerve Degeneration after "Temporary" Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, University of Washington
Fish in a Dish: Discovering Genetic and Chemical Modulators of Inner Ear Hair Cell Death
Department of Speech and Hearing Science, Arizona State University
Delivering fine-structure cues to cochlear implant users
Department of Speech & Hearing Sciences, University of Washington
How does the human brain understand auditory space
Dept. of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University
Tuning the immature auditory brainstem to listen
Dept. Of Otorhinolaryngology, University Medical Hospital Groningen, The Netherlands
Temporal coding and input-output curves in hearing
Professor Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota
Dynamic auditory frequency resolution
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany
What makes sensitive periods critical?
Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine
Cell Fate Decisions in Cochlear Hair Cell Development and Regeneration
National Biomedical Research Unit in Hearing, Nottingham, England
Understanding auditory processing disorder in children, its characteristics and management
National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Buenos Aires; Investigator: Institute for Research on Genetic Engineering & Molecular Biology
The Efferent Olivocochlear System and Protection from Acoustic Trauma
Georg-August-University, Goettingen; Medical Faculty, Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
Molecular physiology of the hair cell ribbon synapse
Director of Audiology; Professor of Otolaryngology, University of California – San Francisco
Clinical Management of the Tinnitus Patient
Professor, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
Inference under uncertainty: how a Bayesian brain perceives the physical world
Professor Emeritus, Departmental Areas – Cognition, Brain & Behavior, Director: Auditory Perception Lab, University of California – Berkeley
A role for trace memory in shared attention
Assistant Professor Department of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, Case Western Reserve University
Analysis and functional evaluation of the hair-cell transcriptome
University College, London, Ear Institute
OAEs: Sound from ears. Where does it come from and where is it leading us?
Distinguished Scholar in Residence, University of Texas, Dallas
Listening to Words: An Electrophysiological Perspective
Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder
Cortical development and re-organization in children with cochlear implants
Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Virginia, School of Medicine
The Molecules and Mechanisms of Mechanosensation in the Mammalian Inner Ear
Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Computational Engineering
From reactive to active auditory system
University of California – San Francisco
Cellular mechanisms of auditory cortical function and plasticity
University of Mississippi, National Center for Physical Acoustics
Human cochlear physics: theory and experiment
Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins University
Sensory screening procedures for mouse models of hearing
Associate Professor of Neural Science and Biology, New York University
Functional development of the auditory central nervous system & the impact of hearing loss
Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Germany
Temporal summation and auditory pattern recognition
Director of the Medical Research Council, Institute of Hearing Research, University of Oxford, U.K.
Auditory learning in theory and practice
University of Washington, Seattle
The aging auditory system: physiological perspectives on temporal processing and auditory rehabilitation
Symposia
Beginning in 2010 with a symposium in honor of Peter Dallos, the Knowles Hearing Center has held an annual full‐day symposium every fall.
The symposium was conceived to attract an audience of researchers and clinicians that extends well beyond the Northwestern University academic community. A new topic is chosen each year by our Fellows in order to appeal to top investigators and clinicians worldwide. While our seminars are designed to introduce one scholar’s ideas to our community, our symposia are designed to showcase a particular topic that is critical to holistic hearing health.
Upcoming
Hypersensitivity to Sound
Fall Symposium 2024Friday, October 11, 2024
9am – 5pm
Hilton
Orrington
1710 Orrington
Evanston, IL
Program
Speakers
Philippe Fournier, Ph.D.
Université Laval
Understanding Reduced Sound Tolerance: Definitions, Diagnosis, and Management
Abstract: Reduced sound tolerance is a pathological condition for which tolerance to sounds is so reduced that normal tolerable everyday sounds induce discomfort. This general term encompasses different forms of reactions and responses to sounds including hypersensitivity to loud sounds (loudness hyperacusis), sound-triggering pain (pain hyperacusis) and aversion to specific sounds (misophonia). According to epidemiological studies, around 10 to 15% of the general population suffers from these disorders. They can greatly affect the quality of life, and the socio-economic integration of individuals affected. During this presentation, an overview of the different forms of reduced sound tolerance will be described and discussed. An up-to-date review of the current diagnostic methods will be presented. Finally, the state of knowledge regarding current and future therapeutic options will be briefly discussed.
Bio: Dr. Fournier is an Assistant Professor of Audiology at Université Laval, a clinical audiologist and a Researcher at the Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en réadaptation et intégration sociale (CIRRIS) in Québec City. His research is dedicated to exploring a spectrum of auditory pathologies, encompassing tinnitus, hyperacusis, misophonia, and acoustic shock syndrome. Driven by a passion for unraveling the intricate workings of these conditions, his research endeavors focus on elucidating the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms, pioneering novel diagnostic methodologies, and advancing patient care through the implementation of cutting-edge therapeutic interventions.
Zachary Rosenthal, Ph.D.
Duke University
Misophonia: New Disorder at the Intersection of Hearing and Mental Health?
Abstract: Misophonia is characterized by strong negative multi-modal responses to specific sounds and associated stimuli commonly produced by others, repetitive, and oral or facial in origin (e.g., chewing, crunching, eating, drinking, throat-clearing, coughing, breathing, etc.). Patterns of reactions may be attentional (e.g., hypervigilance toward possible sound stimuli), physiological (e.g., increased sympathetic nervous system activation including increased heart rate and sweating), affective (e.g., the subjective experience of feeling a sudden increase in anger, rage, disgust, anxiety, and other unpleasant affective states), cognitive (e.g., dysfunctional assumptions, beliefs, rules, and other cognitions such that may include internal and/or external attributions), behavioral (e.g., avoidance, escape, distraction), and/or interpersonal (e.g., confrontation, indirect aggression, withdrawal, demands). First introduced in 2001, Misophonia is being rapidly studied, has been defined by expert consensus, and appears to be differentiable from existing audiologic and mental health diagnoses. This presentation will (a) review the latest scientific literature investigating misophonia, (b) outline evidence supporting it as a unique and new diagnostic category, and (c) raise the question of whether to classify this new disorder within the mental health or audiologic nomenclature.
Bio: Dr. Zachary Rosenthal is a clinical psychologist and Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Department of Psychology & Neuroscience at Duke University. He is Director of the Duke Center for Misophonia and Emotion Regulation (CMER), leading a team conducting research, providing education, and developing clinical care pathways for Misophonia. He also directs the Duke Cognitive Behavioral Research and Treatment Program and is Co-Chief Psychologist for the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences.
Emily Coffey, Ph.D.
Concordia University
Towards mechanistic models of misophonia
Abstract: Misophonia is a disorder of decreased tolerance to specific, every sounds that are not problematic for most people. These sounds, known as "triggers", are experienced as unpleasant or distressing and tend to evoke strong negative emotional, physiological, and behavioral responses and can significantly affect quality of life. Recent research has made some progress towards differentiating the disorder from other types of sound sensitivity, and documenting behavioral, physiological and neurological differences between people who suffer from misophonia and healthy controls. However, we lack a unifying theory about its neurobiological basis. In this talk, I will outline current ideas concerning the neural circuitry that might give rise to misophonia, with a view towards developing models that yield testable hypotheses and predictions.
Bio: Dr. Emily Coffey is a cognitive neuroscientist known for her research on auditory perception, learning, and brain plasticity. She focuses on top-down and attentional processes in misophonia and has begun to synthesize this into neurobiological models of misophonia.
Bharath Chandrasekaran, Ph.D.
Northwestern University
A dimensional framework to shine light on the dark side of audition
Abstract: Dr. Chandrasekaran, an auditory cognitive neuroscientist, employs a systems neuroscience approach to explore the neurobiology of auditory categorization and learning. In this presentation, he shares his personal experience with misophonia, advocating for the field to shift from monolithic diagnostic labels to a dimensional framework grounded in systems neuroscience. This approach addresses the challenges of individual variability, heterogeneity, and co-morbidity in auditory disorders.
Bio: Dr. Chandrasekaran is the Ralph and Jean Sundin Endowed Professor and Chair of the Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. His research program employs a systems neuroscience approach to investigate the computations, maturational constraints, and plasticity underlying auditory signals such as speech and music. Over the past two decades, his lab has utilized cutting-edge behavioral, multimodal neuroimaging, and modeling-based approaches to achieve a computational, algorithmic, and implementation-level understanding of how sounds are represented and mapped to behaviorally relevant constructs in the human brain. From a clinical perspective, the SoundBrain Lab hopes to enrich our understanding of the neurocognitive sources of individual differences in speech processing and to develop neurobiologically-informed auditory training protocols for learning impairments and auditory processing deficits.
Dan Polley, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
Sound Sensitivity Disorders: New Perspectives on Mechanisms and Biomarkers
Abstract: Sound is jointly processed along acoustic and emotional dimensions. These dimensions can become distorted and entangled in persons with sensory disorders, producing a spectrum of loudness hypersensitivity, phantom percepts, and – in some cases – debilitating sound aversion. In human subjects, we recently described new approaches to study affective sound processing (doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.22.571929). We found that pupil dilations and facial movement amplitudes scaled with sound valence in neurotypical listeners but not in participants with chronic tinnitus and sound sensitivity. In these participants, emotionally evocative sounds elicited abnormally large pupil dilations but blunted, invariant facial reactions that jointly provided an accurate prediction of individual tinnitus and hyperacusis questionnaire handicap scores. By contrast, EEG measures revealed steeper neural response growth functions but no association with symptom severity. These findings suggested that neural hyper-responsivity, hyperactivity, and hyper-synchrony in central auditory networks can impart disordered sound processing in limbic and autonomic networks that regulate auditory valence and arousal. We have tested this idea in animal models, where we can isolate neural defects underlying loudness hypersensitivity and disordered affective sound processing by recording from genetically targeted cell types in the mouse auditory cortex and lateral amygdala. We recently found that parvalbumin-expressing inhibitory neurons (PVNs) in the mouse auditory cortex provide a volume knob for the perception of loudness, where targeted activation or inactivation of PVNs shifted loudness reporting by +/- 20 dB (doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.30.596691). After noise-induced sensorineural damage in the high-frequency region of the cochlea, mice reported loudness hypersensitivity for spared, mid-frequency sounds and neural hyper-responsivity in the auditory cortex and amygdala. Importantly, activating PVNs in hyperacusic mice completely restored normal loudness perception, even though sensorineural damage in the ear remained untreated. For example, several minutes of PVN stimulation at 40Hz reversed loudness hypersensitivity for up to a week, underscoring the promise of therapies for sound sensitivity disorders that focus on higher stages of the central auditory pathway.
Bio: Dr. Polley is Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery where he serves as the Director of the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories, Director of the Lauer Tinnitus Research Center, and Vice Chair for Basic Research in the Department of Otolaryngology─Head and Neck Surgery. Dr. Polley's research focuses on experience-dependent brain plasticity and its therapeutic applications for hearing loss, sound sensitivity and tinnitus. Specifically, he studies 1) the effects of hearing loss on the central nervous system, 2) the influence of learning and emotion on the neural processing of sound, and 3) new modes of therapy and rehabilitation for chronic tinnitus and auditory hypersensitivity.
Beverly Wright, Ph.D.
Northwestern University
Maladaptive learning may contribute to negative responses to sound
Abstract: Chronic pain has been proposed to arise, in part, from maladaptive learning. Here we introduce a potential process by which maladaptive learning may contribute to the escalation of negative responses to sound. We have observed that training on auditory perceptual tasks is particularly effective when periods of task performance (attention directed to the sounds) are combined with periods of stimulus exposure alone (attention directed away from the sounds). However, while this combination can have a robust positive influence on sound perception, it could have a negative influence as well. For example, a person with annoying tinnitus may periodically attend to it--like repeatedly pressing on a bruise to see if it still hurts. The attention may enhance the annoyance on its own, but the continuation of the tinnitus even when the person's attention is elsewhere, could supercharge it. If so, negative responses to a sound could potentially be diminished by reducing the number of periods in which attention with a negative valence is focused on the sound, so as not to feed the negative responses through unattended exposures to the sound. We have also observed that auditory learning can be disrupted when periods of auditory task performance are combined with periods of stimulus exposure alone, if the stimulus exposures are presented during performance of an attention-demanding visual task. This outcome provides another potential route for reducing maladaptive learning that may contribute to negative responses to sound.
Bio: Dr. Wright is Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders. Her research interests include auditory perceptual learning and attention. She studies these topics primarily in young adults with normal hearing, but also in children, adolescents, and older adults, as well as in people with atypical sensory experience (hearing loss) and cognitive background (language and reading disorders).
Marie-Anick Savard
Concordia University
Misophonia: from personal experience to scientific inquiry
Abstract: In this talk, I will describe how my experiences as a sufferer of misophonia have motivated and informed my research into its neurological bases. I will discuss how the lack of understanding and resources available on the topic have led me to pursue this research path and give personal insights into the challenges and benefits of being a misophonia researcher with misophonia. I will also explain how our lab is actively working to address these gaps by developing tools and making behavioral, physiological, and neuroimaging data available to the broader research community. I will also provide an overview of current research projects, which focus on understanding the attentional and cognitive processes involved in misophonic responses. I will highlight my recent work on the role of voluntary attention in misophonia, examining how attentional processes can be leveraged to mitigate negative reactions to misophonia trigger sounds.
Bio: Ms. Savard is a third-year PhD student in the Psychology (Research) program at Concordia University, Montréal, Canada, co-supervised by Dr. Emily Coffey and Dr. Mickael Deroche. Her research, supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, focuses on the cognitive and neural processes underlying misophonia. Driven by her personal experience with the condition, Marie-Anick's current work examines how attentional processes affect misophonic responses, using behavioral and physiological measures to explore how these responses can be modulated through cognitive strategies.
Julia Perekhozhuk
Benet Academy
Hypersensitivity to sound: Personal experiences
Abstract: Abstract coming soon
Bio: Ms. Perekhozhuk is a sophomore at Benet Academy in Lisle, IL. She studies violin with Sang Mee Lee at Music Institute of Chicago and has won prizes at numerous competitions, including the DePaul Concerto Festival, the Sejong and the Granquist Music Competitions, the Society of American Musicians Violin Competition, the American Protégé Music Competition at Carnegie Hall, the Ukrainian Music Festival (Toronto, Ontario), and the talent competition of the USA Ukrainian Diaspora. She has been featured on WFMT's Introductions and given numerous performances for Ukrainian festivals and cultural events. Solo recitals include those at the Redcliffe Senior Centre, the Young Steinway Series at the Skokie Library, and the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art. Julia has also been a member of Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra for 7 years. In her free time, she enjoys drawing and singing.
Previous
Hearing and Cognition
2019
Contemporary Hearing Science Inspired by David Green
2019
Vestibular dysfunction: research to rehabilitation
2018
Social and emotional aspects of hearing loss
2017
Hearing Restoration
2016
The Business of Hearing Health Care
2015
Hearing loss in children: Is a little too much?
2014
Noise & Hearing: What do we know? Where do we go?
2013
Translational Research: Applications to Hearing Loss
2012
Learning to Hear: The Influence of Training and Experience on Auditory Skill
2011
Peter Dallos Symposium: The Ins and Outs of Hair Cells
2010
Knowles Leadership Fund
Through the Knowles Leadership Fund, the Center supports Northwestern Knowles Fellows in a variety of ways to pursue research, training and clinical opportunities that hold promise for significant advances in preventing, diagnosing and treating hearing disorders.
These include fellowships for interdisciplinary research at the Center, grants to pursue new avenues of investigation, leaves of absence and travel funds to conduct research at other institutions, bridge funding, support for scientists from other institutions or industry to participate in research at the Center, and funding for doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows of unusual potential.