Student Position Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Traineeships Predoctoral and postdoctoral research fellowships are available in Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of Washington under support from an Institutional Grant of a National Research Service Award from the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders. The objective of this project is to provide intensive research training in the Speech and Hearing Sciences for predoctoral and postdoctoral students pursuing research careers, which may reasonably be expected to advance the state of knowledge of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders. Because the scientific substrates underlying human communication are diverse, this training mission draws support from biological, behavioral, medical, engineering, and physical science departments, research centers, and research programs at the University of Washington. All predoctoral trainees will complete a program of study in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences supplemented by selective coursework from other science departments. All research fellows participate in a university-wide program scientific integrity and ethics in research.
Predoctoral trainees complete an independent research experiment and write a dissertation.
In all instances the intensive research training will be done under the direction of an approved productive scholar whose research interests are similar to those of the trainee. This NRSA grant began in 1991 and is currently funded through 2001. It provides funding for 4 predoctoral and 2 postdoctoral research fellows per year.