2026-2027 Virginia Merrill Bloedel Trainee Award
| Grad Student Trainee: Amanda Rokicky Affiliate Mentor: Z Yang Wan, PhD Assistant Professor Dept: Biology |
$15,000 Award Vestibular Dysfunction (and Recovery) in the Octopus |
2025-2026 Virginia Merrill Bloedel Mini-Grant Awards
| Affiliate Principal Investigator: David L. Horn, MD, MS Associate Professor |
$10,000 Award Behavioral and Electrophysiological Characterization of Auditory Acuity in Children with Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder |
| Affiliate Principal Investigator: David W. Raible, PhD Professor Depts: Otolaryngology-HNS, Neurobiology & Biophysics Affiliate Co-Investigator: Shuyi Ma, PhD Assistant Professor Dept: Pediatrics |
$10,000 Award Testing efficacy of macrolide compounds to protect mammalian hair cells against aminoglycoside ototoxicity |
| Affiliate Principal Investigator: Amy Pace, PhD Associate Professor Dept: Speech & Hearing Sciences |
$5,000 Award What Dual Language Learners Hear in the Home Language Environment Matters: Using Audio Recordings to Guide Parent Coaching |