Hollis Scarborough receives SSSR 2008 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award. The SSSR award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions recognizes empirical, theoretical, or scholarly work or collection of works that have served significantly to further the scientific understanding of reading, its processes, its acquisition, or its instruction.

Staff Talk:
The next Staff Talk will be a Town Meeting, convened by Ken Pugh and scheduled for Thursday, May 1, 2008. Additional information is forthcoming.

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving ad promotes Haskins Literacy Initiative

Julia Irwin's research featured in Acoustics Today cover story

Reading Study:
Dr. Leonard Katz is conducting a Reading Study. Go here for more information.

Other News and Events:

We have started to archive research posters and presentations created by members of the Haskins community.

The informal Haskins Reading Seminar is on hiatus.

Gallery @ Haskins
Facing Modernity: Photos and Posters from the collection of Philip Rubin. January 7 to March 31, 2008. Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 10 am–4 pm.

The "Adventure" film (1954) added to the History section

A new History section has been added.

An Oral History of Haskins Laboratories has been added to the History section.

A News Archive section has been added.

The Keystone Reporting System has been released and can be found in the Employee Intranet section of the site.

New Grants:
March 22, 2007. Sensitivity to visual speech information in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders to be studied in NIH grant (A-142, Julia R. Irwin, PI).

April 6, 2006. Links between production and perception in speech to be studied in NIH grant (A-93, Douglas H. Whalen, PI).

Teacher Quality Grant:
Mastering Reading Instruction.
U.S. Department of Education; Susan Brady, PI.
This project will investigate effective strategies for improving the preparation of classroom teachers to teach reading in the first grade.

Adolescent Reading Program:
Behavioral and Neural Effects
NIH/NICHD, Hollis Scarborough, PI.
This project will examine the effectiveness of several research driven methods for improving the reading abilities of struggling adolescent readers.

New Funding Opportunities:
Be sure to check the Grants page to find out about funding opportunities and grants-related information.

People:

Julia Irwin's audio-visual research was featured in the October 2007 issue of Acoustics Today.

Philip Rubin was named as a Fellow of Trumbull College at Yale University on Sep. 20, 2007.