Adventures in Research…or How I Went from Chi Square

to HereShari Salzhauer Berkowitz, PhDMercy College Adjunct Dinner

April 22, 2014

Now…

• Full-time faculty member• Communication Disorders• School of Health and Natural Sciences– Teaching– Clinic– Research…with masters, undergrads– Salon– Service

• PhD 2010, speech perception – AE on Mandarin

Then…1980 thru 1984

• SUNY Binghamton, NY• Math• Linguistics• Robert K. Herbert• Collected compliment responses–Male/female compliment recipients– Different response patterns

• Performed Chi square analysis

State of the Art 1983

Still the Same

Tools change, principles remain:• Add to knowledge base• Create new connections• Contribute to your field– Arts– Education– Sciences– Social sciences

Mercy offers adjunct faculty…

• SPSS statistical package• Redcap survey software• Librarians – by school, tech, research• Research Salon for advice and help– Monthly meetings– Adjuncts welcome– IRB info – Design – Stats

Mercy POV

• Adjunct faculty members as valuable players• Buddy with full-time faculty member(s)• Bring the outside world to campus• Many funders looking for – Translational– Theory to practice– Interdisciplinary

• Adjuncts can be the real world piece that make a larger grant work

Funding Highlights (Nuts & Bolts)• You will get paid on a grant as a consultant • Major federal funding sources:– National Endowment for the Humanities– National Endowment for the Arts– Department of Education

• Hispanic-Serving Institution– National Science Foundation– National Institutes of Health

• Private foundations• Your community of scholars• Faculty Development Grants…stay tuned…

Undergraduate Research Assistants

After taking NIH training if human subjects…• Literature Reviews• Run subjects in experiments• Test equipment• Collect pilot data• Make phone calls to find participants• Write IRB documents with a model• Honors students

Why bother?

• Thrill of a fresh data set/ evidence/ sources• Turning a student on to that addiction• Collaborative relationship• Creating something new – Piece of art – Evidence– New connections between ideas

• It could lead…anywhere…• Unexpected benefits…unlikely paths

My current work, Student-driven

Undergrads:– Eye tracker– Caffeine use and the voice– Peruvian parents’ beliefs about cleft lip and palate

Graduate students:– Tongue strength in children– GREs as a predictor of success in SLP programs– Late learners of English SLP skills for clinic

So what happened after 1984?

• Robert K. Herbert (1990). Sex-based differences in compliment behavior.

Language in Society, 19, pp 201-224. • Cited by 263 in total– 6 of which are in 2014

• No mention of me!• How many unsung research assistants?• Corpus of over 1000 Binghamton compliments

and almost 500 South African compliments

Thanks!

• Bob Herbert • Winifred Strange• Lab mates• Students• Funders (past and future!) including FDG• Greet Van Belle, Kim Rapoza, Monique Caubere• You for coming

Onwards…