Laboratory for Speech Physiology and Motor Control - Training Opportunities for Students and Postdoctoral Fellows
The University of Connecticut's Laboratory for Speech Physiology and Motor Control offers training opportunities primarily for individuals in two different tracks: (1) B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows in the Department of Communication Sciences (Storrs campus) and (2) Ph.D. students in the Department of Neuroscience at the medical school (Farmington campus). In addition, students from other University of Connecticut programs (e.g., Biomedical Engineering; Psychology; Physiology and Neurobiology) can be affiliated with the lab for academic and research experiences that complement their main affiliation.
Individuals with a strong interest in the sensorimotor and neurobiological mechanisms underlying speech production or human motor control in general are offered a stimulating and technologically advanced research environment. Individuals with an interest in these lines of research find in the Laboratory the collaborators and up-to-date research facilities to expand their knowledge in multiple scientific disciplines (e.g., human motor control, neuroscience, speech science, laboratory instrumentation), to participate in several ongoing research projects, and to start developing and conducting their own projects.
In addition to the research activities at the lab, a close collaboration with Haskins Laboratories (New Haven, CT) offers the lab's researchers even more unparalleled opportunities for a research training that is based on state-of-the-art instrumentation and interaction with leading scientists in speech motor control and related areas. Additional national and international collaborations with established speech and nonspeech motor control scientists further contribute to the same goal.
Trainee Funding
For undergraduate students conducting research in the Laboratory for Speech Physiology and Motor Control, Summer funding (approximately $3,000) may be available through the University's Office for Undergraduate Research (applications for these competitive awards are due February 1). Students should contact the lab director, Dr. Ludo Max, by e-mail () if they are interested in initiating an application. In addition, undergraduate student labor or work-study positions are sometimes available.
Occasionally, half-time graduate assistantships funded through research grants are available for master's students who would like to work in the lab.
Doctoral students in the lab are funded through full-time graduate assistantships from their department or from research grants. Full-time assistantships provide a full tuition waiver
and stipend.
Postdoctoral researchers are expected to apply, if eligible, for individual NIH, NSF, or other postdoctoral fellowships. Occasionally, grant-supported postdoctoral positions may be available.
For more information about any of the training and funding opportunities in the Laboratory for Speech Physiology and Motor Control, please contact the lab director ().