News & Events
2026
Spring 2026
Undergraduate student researcher Anna Nguyen was awarded an Undergraduate Research Award (UGRA) to support the Vietnamese-English Bilingual Speech Development Project.
2025
Fall 2025
Graduate student researcher Herman Cheah was awarded Kansas Speech-Language Hearing Association (KSHA)'s Margaret Byrne-Sarricks Scholarship and Dixie Heinrich Servant Leadership Award to support the Mandarin-English bilingual preschool children's speech development project.
- Master's Thesis presentation at Kansas Speech-Language-Hearing Association (KSHA)'s Annual State Conference in Topeka, KS; September 29, 2025
- Master's Thesis presentation at 12th Asia Pacific International Conference on Speech, Language, and Hearing in Bangkok, Thailand; December 12, 2025
Undergraduate student researcher Megan Fors was awarded an Undergraduate Research Award (UGRA) to support the Learning sounds from native and non-native speech contexts project.
Spring 2025
Undergraduate student researcher Emma Hefty was awarded an Undergraduate Research Award (UGRA) to support the Learning sounds from native and non-native speech contexts project.
2024
Fall 2024
Undergraduate student researcher Archisa Ghimire was awarded an Undergraduate Research Award (UGRA) to support the Cross-linguistic influence of signed and spoken language project.
Dr. McDonald was awarded an American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation New Century Scholars Research Grant to support a new project using machine learning to make more accurate predictions about bilingual speech development.
Spring 2024
Dr. McDonald was awarded a New Faculty Research Development Grant from KU to support the Korean-English bilingual speech development project.