APARC, located at the 16 Tech Innovation District in Indianapolis, is dedicated to reducing the burdens of untreated hearing loss for the citizens of Indiana (and beyond) by providing standardized hearing assessments for diverse community members, as well as in-person and online resources for those looking for expert information about the complex world of hearing healthcare, especially in underserved communities.

      
Our collaborations with Creare LLC to develop an open-source hearing platform (openhearing.org) based on their Tympan device (are critical to efforts to make standardized hearing testing more accessible, especially in rural farming communities within Indiana and at the nearby Indianapolis Motor Speedway that gets pretty loud. Thanks to Matt Uekermann from Creare LLC for visiting and providing demos of audiometry on the Tympan during our opening!

  

Special thanks to our distinguished speakers and guests Karen Plaut, Aaron Bowman, Emily Krueger, David Umulis, Lucy Flesch who helped to make this event such a wonderful celebration. Thanks to our amazing collaborative team of faculty and staff: Alexandra Hustedt-Mai, Jennifer Simpson, Maureen Shader, Joshua Alexander from SLHS, Ed Bartlett from BIO and BME, Ananth Grama from Computer Science, and Noori Kim from Engineering Technology. And special thanks to all our students: Samantha Hauser, Andrew Sivaprakasam, Elizabeth Jensen, Isabella Huddleston, Annika Schenkel, Maggie Ziko. Thanks for the support from Purdue's Office of Research and the Provost's Office, which builds on initial support from the Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience, and their Grand Challenges in Neuroscience program, which Chris Rochet led as PIIN's Director. Thanks also to Kaethe Beck for help with APARC in general and with the Grand Opening.

We are really excited about the potential for collaborations with Purdue’s new campus in Indianapolis, with companies here in Indy, and to benefit from and to have an impact on the wonderful diverse local communities here. Please reach out to aparc@purdue.edu for more information or to schedule a comprehensive hearing test.