Grace Puin excels at getting Parkinsons patients to speak and swallow with intent. She’s so good in fact that Parkinson Voice Project, a nonprofit organization that helps people with Parkinson’s all over the world, invited her to host one of its online SPEAK OUT! Home Practice Sessions.The Cuyahoga Falls native, currently studying for a master’s degree in speech language pathology, has the unique distinction of being the first graduate student at Kent State University to host one of these online, practice sessions used daily by nearly 4,000 people with Parkinson’s....

  Dr. Trevor Williams, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences, is the recipient of a large-scale (R01) grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. He will serve as Co-Investigator (and PI of the KSU Sub-contract) for a project titled “Social Cognition Battery for Psychosis-Risk (SCB-PR): A Development and Validation Study” (total award: $3.62 million). It will be a multi-study longitudinal investigation in adolescents and young adults, validating and adapting social cognitive tasks that are sensitive to psychosis risk and changes in social function...