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October 2023
  • Fatima presents at the Academy of Aphasia 61st Annual Meeting, Reading, England.
  • Katlyn gives a talk at the Academy of Aphasia 61st Annual Meeting, Reading, England.
September 2023
  • Dr. Kielar gives a talk at the Arizona Alzheimer’s Consortium 24th Annual Scientific Conference, Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
  • Fatima & Katlyn present a poster Arizona Alzheimer’s Consortium Scientific Conference, Tempe, AZ.
June 2023
May 2023
  • Dr. Kielar presents our work at the Innovations in Healthy Aging Summit in Washington, DC.
  • Emma Slenkovich presents at the Chemistry and Biochemistry Poster Fair.
  • Elle Goehring presents at Pinnacle, the Franke Honors College’s Annual Research Symposium.
March 2023
January 2023
  • Katlyn Nickels and Dr. Kielar publish paper in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Noah presents at Undergraduate Biology Research Project Conference.

November 2022
  • Katlyn presents at the 2022 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention.
October 2022
  • Fatima and Noah present at Society for the Neurobiology of Language 14th annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA
Spring 2022
  • Dr. Kielar, Patterson, and Chou publish paper in Clinical Neurophysiology.
May 2020
  • Dr. Kielar presents results of rTMS study at the Research Innovation Showcase, BIO5 Institute.
  • Dr. Kielar interviewed for Thesis Thursday, KXCI 91.3 about using neuromodulation to enhance recovery after the stroke.
April 2020
  • Mike Shen, NSCS & Linguistics, completed honors thesis: fMRI Localizer Task for Cortical Responses to Phonology, Semantics, and Orthography: A Pilot Study.
  • Steffi Haya Pertsovsky, NSCS, completed honors thesis, Effects of Stroke Lesion on Language Performance and White Matter Connectivity in Post-Stroke Aphasia.
August 2019
  • Mike Shen presents his project at the 24th Annual UROC Research Conference, University of Arizona, Graduate College.
June 2019
  • Dr. Kielar received BIO5 Institute University of Arizona: Team Scholars Program grant to work on non-invasive neurostimulation protocol for treatment of language deficit in post-stroke aphasia.
May 2019
  • Dr. Kielar receives University of Arizona College of Science Dean’s Innovation Award.
  • Dr. Kielar publishes paper: Slowing is slowing: Delayed neural responses to words are linked to abnormally slow resting state activity in Primary Progressive Aphasia in Neuropsychologia.
April 2019
  • Kimberly Skvarla, NSCS completed undergraduate honors thesis Electrophysiological signature of verb argument processing: ERP study.
  • Alexis Morrison, NSCS completes undergraduate honors thesis “Narrative production in stroke related aphasia and older adults”
  • Alexis and Kimmy present at the Neuroscience & Cognitive Science Poster Forum.
March 2019
  • Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference (CNS), San Francisco, CA, USA. Relationship between phonology, semantics and paste tense inflection in post-stroke aphasia.