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Mobile technology helps give voice to nonverbal autistic children during pandemic Noel Nyquist and her daughter, Elle, complete a language learning activity using SPEAKall! (Purdue Research Foundation image) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University technology to assist nonverbal children on the autism spectrum is helping families around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has forced schools and clinics to rely more on remote options. The award-winning SPEAKall! application functions as a smart device communication board and language learning platform that teaches students to ass...

New technology from Purdue University and Indiana University School of Medicine innovators may one day help patients who suffer devastating vocal injuries from surgery on the larynx. A collaborative team consisting of Purdue biomedical engineers and clinicians from IU has tissue-engineered component tissue replacements that support reconstruction of the larynx.

  The Pandemic Wrenched Their Dissertation Plans. Catalyst Grants Are Easing the Challenges Jessica Fletcher, Dean Schafer, Megan Henriquez, and Kristena Newman Understanding how infections spread is especially important in light of a pandemic, and Ph.D. student Megan Henriquez (Anthropology) intends to do that with her dissertation on parasitic infections in capuchin monkeys. Ironically, though, the pandemic is wrenching her plans to travel to Costa Rica to collect samples. She had to change how she gathers data, and a grant from The Graduate Center is helping. Henriquez is one of 60 Ph...

January 7, 2021 Not all WSU programs are observing the revised Jan. 19 start date for the Spring 2021 semester. Students at WSU Health Sciences and some students in the Carson College of Business and the College of Veterinary Medicine all will start earlier for various reasons, such as clinical contracts and commitments. Students in the College of Nursing and College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences will begin the semester on Jan. 11. That applies to students on any campus, so even though WSU Vancouver is observing the delayed start date, for example, nursing students there will begin ...

Can You Train Your Ears to Become More Sensitive? Is your body perfectly toned? Are your workdays marathons of effortless achievement? Do your relationships proceed from a place of maximal openness/empathy? Have you, through therapy or nootropics, trained your brain away from thoughts of sadness/despair? If you’ve answered yes to all of these questions—and frankly I can’t imagine a person who wouldn’t—you might be wondering: what’s next? What is left, at this point, to optimize? To which we’d respond: your ears. A finely-tuned pair has tremendous advantages as both practical too...