Graham Clark Wiins German Neuroscience Award

Graham Clark, has been awarded Germany's highest accolade in neuroscience, the 2007 Klaus Joachim Zulch prize, for his research into neuroscience and cochlear implants. He shared the prize with Dr John Donoghue who leads the brain science program at Brown University.

Michael Chorost at MIT Conference

Michael Chorost spoke about his experiences as a cochlear implant user at MIT's Media Lab conference, "H2.0: New Minds, New Bodies, New Identities," the lab's May 9 symposium that showed how addressing the challenges posed by disabilities can broaden the scope of human ability.

Keck Futures Initiative Grant to Study Cochlear Implant Children

The National Academy of Sciences announced that Phillip M. Gilley, a postdoctoral researcher in University of Colorado - Boulder's speech, language and hearing sciences department, and Arizona State University collaborator Michael F. Dorman, are one of 16 projects selected to receive the highly competitive Keck Futures Initiative grants, which support interdisciplinary research on "smart" prosthetics such as cochlear hearing implants. They aim to develop clinically useful and less invasive ways of studying the brain activity of children who wear cochlear implants.