News - Interdisciplinary Training Program in Auditory Neuroscience

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.

November 7, 2022

Barb Shinn-Cunningham presents the 2022 Distinguished M.D. Steer Lecture in SLHS

Thank you to everyone who attended this year's M. D. Steer Distinguished Lecture Series in SLHS this afternoon with guest lecturer Dr. Barbara Shinn-Cunningham. We had a great turnout and thoroughly enjoyed her talk "Why does hearing loss sabotage communication in lively social settings?" Thank you Dr. Shinn-Cunningham for a wonderful lecture this year!

February 28, 2022

Ravinderjit (Rav) Singh successfully defends his PhD!!

Congratulations to former TPAN T32 fellow Ravinderjit (Rav) Singh for successfully defending his PhD dissertation, entitled "Auditory tracking and scene analysis - perceptual timescales and neural correlates." Rav will be returning to IU School of Medicine in April to start his 3rd year there on his way to becoming a clinical scientist.

April 30, 2021

TPAN students win 3rd place in world-wide Cochlear Implant Hackathon

Congratulations to TPAN doctoral students Ravinderjit (Rav) Singh and Andres Llico for winning 3rd place in the world-wide Cochlear Implant Hackathon, placing just behind a team from Google!