Congratulations Dr. Tilak Ratnanather!

Program Co-Director, Dr. Tilak Ratnanather, DPhil has been awarded a new R25 training grant to continue his important work providing mentored biomedical training opportunities in auditory research for Deaf/Hard of Hearing (D/HH) undergraduate students. In collaboration with the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and the Hearing Loss Association of America, the “STEMM Opportunities for College Students with Hearing Loss to Engage in Auditory Research (STEMM-HEAR)” program is funded by the NIH’s National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.

This training program will choose undergraduate students to undergo a research experience in a hearing sciences laboratory with faculty mentors who also have hearing loss. While working and communicating with mentors as well as hearing peers, they will develop the capacity to become leaders in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine.