It's official. This summer, I will be spending my time at Boys Town National Research Hospital in Omaha, NE as a short-term AuD research trainee! For the past 4 years, it has been my dream to someday work at Boys Town. Thanks to the National Institute of Health, I am going to be able to live my dream a lot sooner than I had ever imagined! I'll be spending three full months working in Dr. Pat Stelmachowicz's research lab running a study on vocal reaction time in normal hearing and hearing impaired children. This is the same lab that my mentor, Dr. Pittman, worked in when she was completing her Post-Doc.
I am so excited to have the chance to be a part of the Boys Town team for a few months. And while I still have plenty of time to decide where I will be spending my 4th year, this summer will be a great opportunity to see if I could see myself as a more permanent member of BTNRH. I'll be leaving the weekend of May 15th and will return to the valley around August 10th...just in time to miss most of the dreadful summer heat! So if you're passing through the Midwest this summer, let me know!
