Awards – Brainvolts

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Nina Kraus

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

Nina Kraus	Clarence-Simon Award for Teaching Excellence
Anoop Jagadeesh	American Hearing Research Foundation “Neural Basis of music perception in individuals with hearing loss” Discovery Grant Recipient
Anika Kaushikkar	Northwestern University funding for grant proposal “Concussions and its Impact on Neural Processing of Sounds in Football Players” Northwestern University Office of Undergraduate Research Summer Research Grant

Nina Kraus	Alumnae Award – Northwestern University
Nina Kraus	Association of American Publishers PROSE Awards – Category Winner in Biomedicine
Nina Kraus	Nautilus Gold Book Award – Category Winner in Science and Cosmology

Jennifer Krizman

American Hearing Research Foundation
“Identifying the auditory mechanisms supporting speech-in-noise and accented-speech recognition in middle-aged listeners with and without sensorineural hearing loss ”
Bitman Grant Recipient

Travis White-Schwoch	MidWinter Travel Award, Association for Research in Otolaryngology
Stephanie Huang	Honors in Neuroscience, Weinberg College, Northwestern University

Nina Kraus	Music Has Power Award, Institute for Music and Neurologic Function
Travis White-Schwoch	MidWinter Travel Award, Association for Research in Otolaryngology
Elaine Thompson	MidWinter Travel Award, Association for Research in Otolaryngology
Ross Heilberg	Northwestern University Undergraduate Research Grant
Caleb Eckstein	Weinberg College Summer Research Grant
Caroline Tilley	Weinberg College Summer Research Grant

Travis White-Schwoch	Student Merit Award, Society for the Neurobiology of Language
Christine Junhui Liu	Best Overall Oral Presentation at Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium Invitation for Oral Presentation at the Northwestern Undergraduate Research and Arts Exposition Franklin N. and Lee L. Corbin Prize on Undergraduate Academic Excellence Honors in Neuroscience, Weinberg College, Northwestern University
Caleb Eckstein	Neuroscience Summer Research Grant
Ross Heilberg	Weinberg College Summer Research Grant
Janet Mao	Kabiller Award, Northwestern Athletics
Caroline Tilley	Summer Internship Grant Program, Northwestern Career Advancement

Nina Kraus	American Music Therapy Association commendation for the presentation “Sound health: music and the mind: Music and childhood development” and for advancing the understanding of the neuroscience of music and its impact on children’s learning as well as her innovative work advancing the understand of the neuroscience of music which affirms the effectiveness of music therapy interventions.
Stephanie Huang	Summer Internship Grant Program Award
Christine Junhui Liu	Neuroscience Summer Research Grant Best Talk at Northwestern Undergraduate Neuroscience Research Symposium
Silvia Bonacina	The Neurosciences and Music – VI: Music, Sound, and Health Conference: Best Poster Abstracts Award
Elaine Thompson	Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) 2017-2019 Northwestern University Cognitive Science Travel Award Northwestern University Career Advancement Grant
Brandon Vilarello	Northwestern University Summer Undergraduate Research Grant Northwestern Education and Undergraduate Research on Neuroscience student (NEURON)
Spencer Smith	American Hearing Research Foundation (AHRF) funding for grant proposal “Investigating the Relationship between Binaural Hearing and Speech-in-Noise Performance in Middle-Aged Listeners” Association for Research in Otolaryngolog MidWinter Travel Award

Christine Junhui Liu	Northwestern Education and Undergraduate Research on Neuroscience student (NEURON) Northwestern University Summer Undergraduate Research Grant (one of nine top grant recipients funded by the Alumnae of Northwestern)
Elaine Thompson	Joseph Levin Foundation Scholarship Ann and Paul Arenberg Student Travel Award
Kali Woodruff Carr	Northwestern University Conference Travel Grant

Jessica Slater	Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) 2015-2017
Elaine Thompson	Association for Research in Otolaryngology MidWinter Meeting Audiology Travel Award
Kali Woodruff Carr	Northwestern University Conference Travel Grant Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC) Conference Student Award

Jennifer Krizman	Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) 2014-2016 Northwestern University Conference Travel Grant
Alexandra Parbery-Clark	American Academy of Audiology Student Travel Award Northwestern University Arenberg Travel Award University of Washington Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and Related Disorders (LEND) Fellowship
Jessica Slater	Cognitive Science Advanced Fellowship Northwestern University Graduate Writing Fellowship
Elaine Thompson	Northwestern University Conference Travel Grant Northwestern University Cognitive Science Travel Award
Kali Woodruff Carr	Northwestern University Conference Travel Grant Northwestern University Cognitive Science Travel Award

Heejae Choi	School of Communication Summer Undergraduate Research Grant
Nina Kraus	Gene D. Cohen Award
Jennifer Krizman	Cognitive Science Advanced Fellowship
Alexandra Parbery-Clark	Association for Research in Otolaryngology MidWinter Meeting Audiology Travel Award Northwestern University Cognitive Science Travel Award
Erika Skoe	Association for Research in Otolaryngology MidWinter Meeting Audiology Travel Award

Soo Ho Ahn	Invitation for Oral Presentation at the Northwestern Undergraduate Research and Arts Exposition
Samira Anderson	Featured in the Illinois Academy of Audiology Summer Research Update Doctoral Scholarship Research award for $1000 from the Illinois Academy of Audiology Northwestern University Cognitive Science Travel Award Association for Research in Otolaryngology MidWinter Meeting Audiology Travel Award
Hee Jae Choi	Northwestern Academic Undergraduate Research Grant School of Communication All-School Award Patricia and Albert Buehler Scholarship Invitation for Oral Presentation at the Northwestern Undergraduate Research and Arts Exposition
Emily Hittner	Northwestern Academic Undergraduate Research Grant Invitation for Oral Presentation at the Northwestern Undergraduate Research and Arts Exposition Weinberg Undergraduate Summer Research Grant
Jane Hornickel	Hugh Knowles Center Ann and Paul Arenberg Student Travel Award, Northwestern University Career Development Grant, Northwestern University Graduate Research Grant, Northwestern University
Nina Kraus	Fletcher Undergraduate Research Faculty Award
Dylan Levy	School of Communication Summer Undergraduate Research Grant
Alexandra Parbery-Clark	Association for Research in Otolaryngology MidWinter Meeting Audiology Travel Award Northwestern Career Development Grant Program American Academy of Audiology Foundation Sadanand Singh Memorial Scholarship
Erika Skoe	Association for Research in Otolaryngology MidWinter Meeting Graduate Student/Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Award
Dana Strait	Association for Research in Otolaryngology MidWinter Meeting Graduate Student/Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Award Graduate Student Award and Award Symposium Presenter, 4th International Conference on the Auditory Cortex, Lausanne, Switzerland

Samira Anderson	New Century Scholars Program Doctoral Scholarship for $10,000 from the ASHA Foundation John D. and Lucille H. Clark Scholarship Dissertation Aging and Speech Communication Student Scholarship award
Karen Chan	Northwestern University Graduate Research Grant Mariani Foundation, The Neurosciences and Music IV Conference Travel Scholarship Featured in Northwestern Graduate Research Highlights
Hee Jae Choi	Northwestern University Summer Research Grant
Emily Hittner	Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Conference Travel Grant Northwestern Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Grant Northwestern University Summer Research Grant
Jane Hornickel	Northwestern Cognitive Science Graduate Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Research
Alexandra Parbery-Clark	New Century Scholars Program Doctoral Scholarship for $10,000 from the ASHA Foundation William F. Austin Scholarship for $10,000 from Starkey Laboratories Association for Research in Otolaryngology. Graduate Student/Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Award Northwestern University Cognitive Science Travel Award Aging and Speech Communication Student Scholarship award
Samantha O’Connell	Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Conference Travel Grant
Emily Spitzer	School of Communication Summer Undergraduate Research Grant
Adam Tierney	Knowles Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Award

Samira Anderson	Association for Research in Otolaryngology Mid-Winter Conference Audiology Travel Award American Auditory Society Annual Meeting Mentored Student Presentation Travel Award
Karen Chan	Northwestern University Advanced Cognitive Science Fellowship
Dana Strait	Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) 2010-2012 Northwestern University Cognitive Science Travel Award
Kyung Myun Lee	Young Researcher’s Travel Award, Society for Education, Music, and Psychology Research (SEMPRE)
Jane Hornickel	School of Communication Rearwin Scholarship
Han-Gyol Yi	School of Communication Century Scholar School of Communication Summer Undergraduate Research Grant School of Communication Lois L. Elliott Book Award
Emily Spitzer	Northwestern University Summer Internship Grant

Frederic Marmel	European Fryssen Foundation Fellowship for the project “Influence of Implicit Musical Knowledge on Pitch Encoding at the Brainstem Level”
Samira Anderson	Northwestern University Graduate Research Ignition Grant “Brainstem Responses to Speech in Noise Correlates of Aging” National Center for Rehabilitation Auditory Research Conference Travel Award Aging and Speech Communication Third International and Interdisciplinary Research Conference Travel Award
Judy Song	Northwestern University Graduate Research Ignition Grant “Plasticity of the Central Auditory System Following Ecologically-Valid Training”
Alexandra Parbery-Clark	Northwestern University Graduate Research Ignition Grant “The Effects of Musical Experience on Cortical Responses to Speech in Noise” Society of Music Perception and Cognition Graduate Student Travel Award Society of Music Perception and Cognition Outstanding Student for Presentation and Scientific Merit Award
Jessica Levine	American Academy of Audiology Student Investigator Research Award
Jane Hornickel	Association for Research in Otolaryngology Graduate Student/Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Award
Dana Strait	Board of Directors, Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC), first student member NIH Predoctoral Fellowship, Neuroscience of Human Cognition National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke (NINDS)

Judy Song	Joseph Levine Academic Scholarship Northwestern University NIH Predoctoral Fellowship, Neuroscience of Human Cognition National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke (NINDS)
Valerij Shafiro (Rush University Assistant Professor)	Advancing Academic Research Careers (AARC) Award from ASHA (mentored scientist)
Dana Strait	Northwestern University Presidential Fellowship Finalist Young Researcher’s Travel Award, Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE)
Jessica Levine	Illinois Academy of Audiology Clinical Research Award
Kyung Myun Lee	Neuroscience and Music III scholarship, the Mariani Foundation Young Researcher’s Travel Award, Society for Education, Music, and Psychology Research (SEMPRE)

Jade Wang	Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) 2007-2010
Alexandra Parbery-Clark	Northwestern University Cognitive Science Travel Award
Dana Strait	Northwestern University Graduate Research Grant
Kyung Myun Lee	Northwestern University Graduate Research Grant

2020
Travis White-Schwoch	MidWinter Travel Award, Association for Research in Otolaryngology
Stephanie Huang	Honors in Neuroscience, Weinberg College, Northwestern University
2019
Nina Kraus	Music Has Power Award, Institute for Music and Neurologic Function
Travis White-Schwoch	MidWinter Travel Award, Association for Research in Otolaryngology
Elaine Thompson	MidWinter Travel Award, Association for Research in Otolaryngology
Ross Heilberg	Northwestern University Undergraduate Research Grant
Caleb Eckstein	Weinberg College Summer Research Grant
Caroline Tilley	Weinberg College Summer Research Grant
2018
Travis White-Schwoch	Student Merit Award, Society for the Neurobiology of Language
Christine Junhui Liu	Best Overall Oral Presentation at Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium Invitation for Oral Presentation at the Northwestern Undergraduate Research and Arts Exposition Franklin N. and Lee L. Corbin Prize on Undergraduate Academic Excellence Honors in Neuroscience, Weinberg College, Northwestern University
Caleb Eckstein	Neuroscience Summer Research Grant
Ross Heilberg	Weinberg College Summer Research Grant
Janet Mao	Kabiller Award, Northwestern Athletics
Caroline Tilley	Summer Internship Grant Program, Northwestern Career Advancement
2017
Nina Kraus	American Music Therapy Association commendation for the presentation “Sound health: music and the mind: Music and childhood development” and for advancing the understanding of the neuroscience of music and its impact on children’s learning as well as her innovative work advancing the understand of the neuroscience of music which affirms the effectiveness of music therapy interventions.
Stephanie Huang	Summer Internship Grant Program Award
Christine Junhui Liu	Neuroscience Summer Research Grant Best Talk at Northwestern Undergraduate Neuroscience Research Symposium
Silvia Bonacina	The Neurosciences and Music – VI: Music, Sound, and Health Conference: Best Poster Abstracts Award
Elaine Thompson	Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) 2017-2019 Northwestern University Cognitive Science Travel Award Northwestern University Career Advancement Grant
Brandon Vilarello	Northwestern University Summer Undergraduate Research Grant Northwestern Education and Undergraduate Research on Neuroscience student (NEURON)
Spencer Smith	American Hearing Research Foundation (AHRF) funding for grant proposal “Investigating the Relationship between Binaural Hearing and Speech-in-Noise Performance in Middle-Aged Listeners” Association for Research in Otolaryngolog MidWinter Travel Award
2016
Christine Junhui Liu	Northwestern Education and Undergraduate Research on Neuroscience student (NEURON) Northwestern University Summer Undergraduate Research Grant (one of nine top grant recipients funded by the Alumnae of Northwestern)
Elaine Thompson	Joseph Levin Foundation Scholarship Ann and Paul Arenberg Student Travel Award
Kali Woodruff Carr	Northwestern University Conference Travel Grant
2015
Jessica Slater	Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) 2015-2017
Elaine Thompson	Association for Research in Otolaryngology MidWinter Meeting Audiology Travel Award
Kali Woodruff Carr	Northwestern University Conference Travel Grant Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC) Conference Student Award
2014
Jennifer Krizman	Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) 2014-2016 Northwestern University Conference Travel Grant
Alexandra Parbery-Clark	American Academy of Audiology Student Travel Award Northwestern University Arenberg Travel Award University of Washington Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and Related Disorders (LEND) Fellowship
Jessica Slater	Cognitive Science Advanced Fellowship Northwestern University Graduate Writing Fellowship
Elaine Thompson	Northwestern University Conference Travel Grant Northwestern University Cognitive Science Travel Award
Kali Woodruff Carr	Northwestern University Conference Travel Grant Northwestern University Cognitive Science Travel Award
2013
Heejae Choi	School of Communication Summer Undergraduate Research Grant
Nina Kraus	Gene D. Cohen Award
Jennifer Krizman	Cognitive Science Advanced Fellowship
Alexandra Parbery-Clark	Association for Research in Otolaryngology MidWinter Meeting Audiology Travel Award Northwestern University Cognitive Science Travel Award
Erika Skoe	Association for Research in Otolaryngology MidWinter Meeting Audiology Travel Award
2012
Soo Ho Ahn	Invitation for Oral Presentation at the Northwestern Undergraduate Research and Arts Exposition
Samira Anderson	Featured in the Illinois Academy of Audiology Summer Research Update Doctoral Scholarship Research award for $1000 from the Illinois Academy of Audiology Northwestern University Cognitive Science Travel Award Association for Research in Otolaryngology MidWinter Meeting Audiology Travel Award
Hee Jae Choi	Northwestern Academic Undergraduate Research Grant School of Communication All-School Award Patricia and Albert Buehler Scholarship Invitation for Oral Presentation at the Northwestern Undergraduate Research and Arts Exposition
Emily Hittner	Northwestern Academic Undergraduate Research Grant Invitation for Oral Presentation at the Northwestern Undergraduate Research and Arts Exposition Weinberg Undergraduate Summer Research Grant
Jane Hornickel	Hugh Knowles Center Ann and Paul Arenberg Student Travel Award, Northwestern University Career Development Grant, Northwestern University Graduate Research Grant, Northwestern University
Nina Kraus	Fletcher Undergraduate Research Faculty Award
Dylan Levy	School of Communication Summer Undergraduate Research Grant
Alexandra Parbery-Clark	Association for Research in Otolaryngology MidWinter Meeting Audiology Travel Award Northwestern Career Development Grant Program American Academy of Audiology Foundation Sadanand Singh Memorial Scholarship
Erika Skoe	Association for Research in Otolaryngology MidWinter Meeting Graduate Student/Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Award
Dana Strait	Association for Research in Otolaryngology MidWinter Meeting Graduate Student/Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Award Graduate Student Award and Award Symposium Presenter, 4th International Conference on the Auditory Cortex, Lausanne, Switzerland
2011
Samira Anderson	New Century Scholars Program Doctoral Scholarship for $10,000 from the ASHA Foundation John D. and Lucille H. Clark Scholarship Dissertation Aging and Speech Communication Student Scholarship award
Karen Chan	Northwestern University Graduate Research Grant Mariani Foundation, The Neurosciences and Music IV Conference Travel Scholarship Featured in Northwestern Graduate Research Highlights
Hee Jae Choi	Northwestern University Summer Research Grant
Emily Hittner	Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Conference Travel Grant Northwestern Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Grant Northwestern University Summer Research Grant
Jane Hornickel	Northwestern Cognitive Science Graduate Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Research
Alexandra Parbery-Clark	New Century Scholars Program Doctoral Scholarship for $10,000 from the ASHA Foundation William F. Austin Scholarship for $10,000 from Starkey Laboratories Association for Research in Otolaryngology. Graduate Student/Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Award Northwestern University Cognitive Science Travel Award Aging and Speech Communication Student Scholarship award
Samantha O’Connell	Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Conference Travel Grant
Emily Spitzer	School of Communication Summer Undergraduate Research Grant
Adam Tierney	Knowles Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Award
2010
Samira Anderson	Association for Research in Otolaryngology Mid-Winter Conference Audiology Travel Award American Auditory Society Annual Meeting Mentored Student Presentation Travel Award
Karen Chan	Northwestern University Advanced Cognitive Science Fellowship
Dana Strait	Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) 2010-2012 Northwestern University Cognitive Science Travel Award
Kyung Myun Lee	Young Researcher’s Travel Award, Society for Education, Music, and Psychology Research (SEMPRE)
Jane Hornickel	School of Communication Rearwin Scholarship
Han-Gyol Yi	School of Communication Century Scholar School of Communication Summer Undergraduate Research Grant School of Communication Lois L. Elliott Book Award
Emily Spitzer	Northwestern University Summer Internship Grant
2009
Frederic Marmel	European Fryssen Foundation Fellowship for the project “Influence of Implicit Musical Knowledge on Pitch Encoding at the Brainstem Level”
Samira Anderson	Northwestern University Graduate Research Ignition Grant “Brainstem Responses to Speech in Noise Correlates of Aging” National Center for Rehabilitation Auditory Research Conference Travel Award Aging and Speech Communication Third International and Interdisciplinary Research Conference Travel Award
Judy Song	Northwestern University Graduate Research Ignition Grant “Plasticity of the Central Auditory System Following Ecologically-Valid Training”
Alexandra Parbery-Clark	Northwestern University Graduate Research Ignition Grant “The Effects of Musical Experience on Cortical Responses to Speech in Noise” Society of Music Perception and Cognition Graduate Student Travel Award Society of Music Perception and Cognition Outstanding Student for Presentation and Scientific Merit Award
Jessica Levine	American Academy of Audiology Student Investigator Research Award
Jane Hornickel	Association for Research in Otolaryngology Graduate Student/Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Award
Dana Strait	Board of Directors, Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC), first student member NIH Predoctoral Fellowship, Neuroscience of Human Cognition National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke (NINDS)
2008
Judy Song	Joseph Levine Academic Scholarship Northwestern University NIH Predoctoral Fellowship, Neuroscience of Human Cognition National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke (NINDS)
Valerij Shafiro (Rush University Assistant Professor)	Advancing Academic Research Careers (AARC) Award from ASHA (mentored scientist)
Dana Strait	Northwestern University Presidential Fellowship Finalist Young Researcher’s Travel Award, Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE)
Jessica Levine	Illinois Academy of Audiology Clinical Research Award
Kyung Myun Lee	Neuroscience and Music III scholarship, the Mariani Foundation Young Researcher’s Travel Award, Society for Education, Music, and Psychology Research (SEMPRE)
2007
Jade Wang	Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) 2007-2010
Alexandra Parbery-Clark	Northwestern University Cognitive Science Travel Award
Dana Strait	Northwestern University Graduate Research Grant
Kyung Myun Lee	Northwestern University Graduate Research Grant