Audiology Research Laboratory

Personnel

Larry Humes has directed the ARL since 1978. Current faculty and staff research collaborators include Dana (Wilson) Kinney, a collaborator since 1996, Diane Kewley-Port, Gary Kidd, Jennifer Lentz, from the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Tom Busey, Jim Craig, Roger Rhodes and Emily Benton from the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, and Christopher Clark from the School of Optometry.

Gary Kidd, Ph.D.

Gary is an Associate Scientist in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences.   His research has included studies of the perception of complex sounds (speech, music, environmental sounds, as well as novel synthesized sounds) and individual differences in auditory abilities.  His collaboration with Dr. Humes began in 2009.

1995 M.A., Audiology, Indiana University
1993 B.A., Speech and Hearing Sciences, Indiana University

Dana is the ARL lab manager and has been working in some capacity in the ARL since 1996. She split her time for several years between the lab and the IU Hearing Clinic and has been working solely in the lab since 2006. Projects that Dana has been involved with include the Geriatric Hearing Aid Project (GHAP), Siemens and SoftEar hearing aid clinical trials, and more recently, the VANTAGE project which is the multi-modal temporal processing/aging study.  Dana works part-time and spends her Tuesdays and Thursdays playing with her son who was born in August, 2007.






Sara Brown, AuD, CCC-A
Audiologist

2011 AuD, Indiana University





Current Postdoctoral Fellows

Vidya Krull, Ph.D., CCC-A

2010 Ph.D., Hearing Science, Purdue University
2006 M.S., Hearing Science, Purdue University
2001 B. Pharm., Birla Institute of Technology-Mesra, India



Current Graduate Students

Hannah Fehlberg, 2nd year AuD student







Current Undergraduate Students