Communication Sciences and Disorders students routinely have the opportunity to conduct research, giving them an advantage for their future careers in speech-language pathology or audiology. Being able to conduct this research abroad only elevates that experience.
International research opportunities for undergraduate students like Erika Exton and Margaret Featherstone were made possible through a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Partnerships in International Research and Education (PIRE) grant to the Penn State Center for Language Science (CLS) in the College of Liberal Arts.
For eight weeks, Exton, a linguistics and communication sciences and disorders double major, conducted research at Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, where she focused on a subset of a project by her advisers, Chaleece Sandberg, assistant professor of communication sciences and disorders, and Janet van Hell, professor of psychology and linguistics and co-director of the CLS.