Stathopoulos Named Chair Of UB Department Of Communicative Disorders And Sciences

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Elaine Stathopoulos, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences and director of the department's Speech Science Laboratory, has been named department chair.

Stathopoulos has been a UB faculty member since 1979.

An active researcher, she has received more than $1.6 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Her research focus -- children's speech production -- has resulted in numerous publications in scientific journals, including five papers in the past two years.

Stathopoulos will assume the editorship of the Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research in January. She currently serves as the journal's associate editor.

She earned bachelor's and master's degrees in speech and hearing pathology from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and Madison, respectively, and holds a doctorate in speech pathology and speech science from Indiana University.

She resides in Buffalo.