Lab Members
Graduate Students
Leah Rice MSc, Department of Linguistics and SLHS
Leah Rice is a doctoral candidate in the Linguistics department at the University of Arizona. She received her Bachelor of Science in Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin- Madison and currently works in Dr. Aneta Kielar’s Language and Neuroimaging laboratory as well as Dr. Thomas Bever’s Language and Cognition laboratory. Her research integrates formal syntactic theory with neurolinguistic models of sentence comprehension. Current studies employ behavioral and neuroimaging methods in healthy and stroke patient populations.
Sara Mohr MSc, Department of SLHS
Sara Mohr is a Master’s student of Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Arizona. She received her BA in Neuroscience and French & Francophone Studies at Wartburg College. Currently, she works in Language and Neuroimaging Research Laboratory directed by Dr. Kielar. She is interested in pursuing a career in Speech-Language Pathology and working in a hospital setting.
Chelsea Privette SLHS Master's program.
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Undergraduate Research Students
Becky Cochiolo, SLHS
Rachel Thomason, SLHS
Katelyn O'Niel Ingersoll, SLHS
Tara M. Ellis-Vaughn B.S. Neuroscience and Cognitive Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology
Rachael Dinh, Public Health/Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
Hanna Nicole Johnson, College of Medicine, Physiology
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Undergraduate Independent Study
Ali Block, SLHS
Alyssa Belder, SLHS
Selenne Yescas, SLHS
Judy Piorkowski, SLHS
Katie McConville, Neuroscience-Cognitive Science
Kenna Lovelace, SLHS-Psychology
Pheobe Lughes, SLHS
Julia Bak, SLHS, Special Education-Rehabilitation
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Previous Lab Members
Herman Singh Khalon, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
Spencer Vaughan, Molecular and Cellular Biology
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We are currently recruiting talented and passionate people to join the lab!
Graduate Students:
1. Laboratory Rotation
2. Master's thesis
3. Doctoral Dissertation
Undergraduate student positions:
We are accepting students who are:
- Interested in gaining research experience
- Would like to be trained on neuroimaging techniques
- Planning their Honors Thesis
If you are interested, please contact: akielar@email.arizona.edu