Haskins Laboratories: News and Events
Yale-UConn Haskins Global Literacy Hub
Inaugural Research Seminar at UConn-Waterbury
In Memoriam
Fumiko Hoeft
In Memoriam: Katherine S. Harris (1925 - 2024)
Katherine S. Harris, a pioneer and leader in speech science and psychology, and the former Vice President of Haskins Laboratories, died on March 15, 2024. She was a Distinguished Professor Emerita in Speech and Hearing at the CUNY Graduate Center and a former President of the Acoustical Society of America.
See her obituary.
Additional information will be posted when it becomes available.
Dr. Fumiko Hoeft, Haskins Laboratories Affiliate and co-founder of the Haskins Global Literacy Hub, was featured as a visionary in The Scientist: Dr. Fumiko Hoeft in TheWaterbury.com in June 2023. Fumiko serves in many roles. She is a Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at UConn, Campus Director of UConn Waterbury, Director of the UConn Brain Imaging Research Center (BIRC), and Professor (by courtesy), in the UConn Departments of Computer Science and Engineering, Educational Psychology, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Pediatrics, and Psychiatry.
Philip Rubin: FABBS’ Accidental Essential Man Linking Research and Policy.
Philip Rubin, Chair of the Board of Haskins Laboratories, was interviewed by Michael Todd, editor of Sages’ S3: Social Science Space on the conclusion of his tenure as President of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences (FABBS). The Q&A appeared in a posting from Dec. 12, 2023, called: “Philip Rubin: FABBS’ Accidental Essential Man Linking Research and Policy”.
Language and Life
S3: Social Science Space interview with Philip Rubin
Language and Life: Haskins Laboratories' first half century
The Haskins Press of Haskins Laboratories is pleased to announce the publication of “Language and Life: Haskins Laboratories’ first half century,” by Carol A. Fowler and Donald Shankweiler. Hardcopy and Kindle copies are available on Amazon.com.
Yale and Uconn announce the Haskins Global Literacy Hub to help improve literacy outcomes locally and globally.
University of Connecticut Waterbury is partnering with the Yale School of Medicine Child Study Center and UConn Global Affairs to form the Haskins Global Literacy Hub to help improve literacy outcomes locally and globally. The new partnership was announced Tuesday, Apr. 23, 2024, during the second annual WISHfest at the Palace Theater in Waterbury.
Inaugural Research Seminar hosted by UConn-Waterbury
The Reading Brain: Bilingual and Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Child Literacy.
The first research seminar hosted by Yale Global Literacy Hub and UConn Global/Waterbury Haskins Global Literacy Hub was held on April 24, 2024, at UConn Waterbuy. The speakler was Prof. Ioulia Kovelman, a developmental cognitive neuroscientist specializing in child language and literacy development, with a focus on bilingual children who speak and read in typologically distinct languages like Spanish and Chinese. She investigates childhood bilingualism using neuroimaging techniques such as functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS). Her research examines the universal, language-specific, and bilingual influences on children's reading development and dyslexia.
ISSP 2024
The 13th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP 2024), will take place in Autrans, France from May 13-17, 2024. 2 page abstracts were due on Dec. 15, 2023.
ISSP provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers working on all aspects of speech production. Topics of interest include different aspects of speech production, including articulation, acoustics, neural substrates, motor control, disorders, and links to perception, communication, development, and language.
A special message from Hall of Fame coach, Jim Calhoun and Psychological Sciences Professor and UConn Waterbury Dean, Fumiko Hoeft, January, 2024
“At UConn, we are champions at everything we do.”
Hall of Fame Coach Jim Calhoun and psychological sciences professor and UConn Waterbury Dean Fumiko Hoeft are the perfect examples of this mindset.
Coach Calhoun is passionate about student-athletes and cardiology research and patient care. Dean Hoeft is passionate about helping children with learning differences. Watch their story to learn more about how they champion these causes.
Presented by the Yale Child Study Center, The Global Literacy Hub, and The Southport CoLAB , Dec. 4-5, 2023
This two-day conference, hosted in-person at Yale University on Monday, Dec. 4-5, 2023, presented the latest, ground-breaking scientific research about how children learn to read, and how those insights are translated into practical classroom strategies.
Speakers included: Devin Kerns, Nicole Landi, Julia Lindsey, Benjamin Powers, Jay Rueckl, Danielle Scorrano, and Mark Seidenberg.