News - Interdisciplinary Training Program in Auditory Neuroscience

September 14, 2026

Seminars in Hearing Research (10/01/26) - Javier Joel Diaz Laboy, PhD Student/PULSe, SLHS

Javier Joel Diaz Laboy, PhD Student/PULSe, SLHS will present "From the Cochlea to the Brain: Investigating Parkinson’s Disease Pathology in the Auditory System" at our Seminars in Hearing Research at Purdue (SHRP) on October 1, 2026 at 12:00-1:00 pm. NLSN 1195

September 14, 2026

Seminars in Hearing Research (10/08/26) - Abigail Mollison, PhD Student, SLHS

Abigail Mollison, PhD Student, SLHS will present " Investigating the Brain-Body Connection: Realistic Speech Perception Outcomes in CI Users." at our Seminars in Hearing Research at Purdue (SHRP) on October 8, 2026 at 12:00-1:00 pm. NLSN 1195

September 7, 2026

Seminars in Hearing Research (09/24/26) - Afagh Farhadi, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, SLHS

Afagh Farhadi, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, SLHS, will present "The Marine Biological Laboratory Summer School Experience: Exploring Hearing and Balance from Cells to Systems" at our Seminars in Hearing Research at Purdue (SHRP) on September 24, 2026 at 12:00-1:00 pm. NLSN 1195

September 1, 2026

Seminars in Hearing Research (09/17/26) - Dr. Anhelina V Bilokon (Au.D.), University of Maryland, College Park

Dr. Anhelina V Bilokon (Au.D.), University of Maryland, College Park, will present "Title: Not Just Noise: Hormonal Variability in Auditory Processing" at our Seminars in Hearing Research at Purdue (SHRP) on September 17, 2026 at 12:00-1:00 pm. NLSN 1195

August 24, 2026

Seminars in Hearing Research (09/10/26) - Thomas Burg, PhD Student, BME

Thomas Burg, PhD Student, BME, will present "The Effects of Earplugging on Blast-Induced Hearing Loss" at our Seminars in Hearing Research at Purdue (SHRP) on September 10, 2026 at 12:00-1:00 pm. NLSN 1195

August 17, 2026

Seminars in Hearing Research (09/03/26) - Damen Wilson, MD/PhD Candidate, BME

Damen Wilson, MD/PhD Candidate, BME, will present "Toward Personalized Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Tinnitus: A Physiology Guided Multimodal Approach" at our Seminars in Hearing Research at Purdue (SHRP) on September 03, 2026 at 12:00-1:00 pm. NLSN 1195

October 17, 2025

* ARO Midwinter Meeting Travel awards *

Congratulations to all of our TPAN affiliates who received a Travel Award to attend the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) 2026 MidWinter Meeting, to be held in February in Puerto Rico!! Thanks for representing Purdue so well!!

May 15, 2025

Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Sivaprakasam on His Ph.D. Graduation!

Congratulations to all of our TPAN affiliates who received a Travel Award to attend the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) 2026 MidWinter Meeting, to be held in February in Puerto Rico!! Thanks for representing Purdue so well!!

September 14, 2024

New preprint from former TPAN Fellow Ravinderjit (Rav) Singh making news ...

Newly submitted work from the PhD thesis of former TPAN Fellow and MD/PhD student Rav Singh describes a newly developed technique to quantify temporal processing across the auditory system. Rav's work with mentor Hari Bharadwaj used this clever approach to describe multilevel effects of attention along the human auditory pathway.

July 1, 2023

We have successfully renewed our NIH T32 training grant for the next 5 years (2023-2028)!!

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders has renewed our five-year T32 grant through the National Institutes of Health’s flagship training program, the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Institutional Research Training Grant. Michael Heinz and Edward Bartlett are the Co-Directors, with a total of 10 auditory-neuroscience and 11 technology-innovator mentors.