NEWS
May 23, 2012	ATA Grant Leads to Breakthrough: The story of "Patient Zero" Michael's Story: http://www.ata.org/Michaels-Story
January 18, 2012	Congratulations to Hsin-I Yang and family on the birth of 7lbs,11oz, height: 20 inches Phoebe Wang (Guava) on January 5, 2012!
January 9, 2012	Congratulations to Geoffrey Gao for being accepted into the Biomedical Engineering Program at Johns Hopkins University!
June 9, 2011	To Turn up the Music, Cochlear Implants Need a Software Update Article Published in the Scientific American
October 20, 2010	The HESP lab has moved to its new location. We are now located in Building 827, Medical Sciences E.
July 7, 2010	Congratulations to Myles Mc Laughlin and family on the birth of 8 lb 1oz and 20.25 inches Ben Mc Laughlin on July 7, 2010!
March 9, 2010	Public Impact Fellowship recipient Janice Chang hopes electronic stimulation therapy can relieve tinnitus. See featured news! http://www.uci.edu/features/2010/03/feature_chang_100308.php
January 12, 2010	Are kids' toys damaging their hearing? http://www.ocregister.com/articles/toys-228698-djalilian-noise.html
January 30, 2009	See our lab's tinnitus research featured on World Health News Today:  http://www.whnewstv.com/Episodes.mvc/ViewEpisode/935/2516
January 29, 2009	"UCI FINDS WAY TO EASE SEVERE RINGING IN THE EARS" Article published in the OC Register about the Hearing and Speech Lab's progress in their Tinnitus research.
December 16, 2008	Congratulations to Qing Tang and family on the birth of 5lbs,13oz, height: 20 inches Lucas Tang on December 12th, 2008!
December 16, 2008	Congratulations to Dustin Zhang and family on the birth of twins David and Daniel!
October 29, 2008	Congratulations to Jeff and Kristina Carroll on the birth of 8 lbs 10oz Alexis Brianne on October 17th, 2008!
December 11, 2007	Congratulations to Tom Lu and family on the birth of 6 lbs 11oz Corinna Gwen on December 11, 2007!
December 4, 2007	Noisy toys can exceed safety guidelines Channel 7 ABC News aired on December  4th featuring doctoral student, the HESP lab's very own Jeff Caroll and ENT Dr. Hamid Djalilian regarding the safety of toys.
October 2007	Congratulations to Ginger Stickney & Jeff Brown on the birth of Jason Brown!
March 2007	Zeng, F-.G. (2007). "Cochlear implants: Why don't more people use them?" The Hearing Journal, 60(3): 48-49.
February 20, 2007	Congratulations, Helen and Arden!  Annabel Shan was born on February 20 at 10am, 7 pounds, 15 ounces
February 22, 2007	The Thirtieth Annual Midwinter Research Meeting Association for Research in Otolaryngology, February 10-15, 2007, Denver, Colorado, USA: Optimizing electric stimulation to suppress tinnitus Fan-Gang Zeng, Qing Tang, Jeff Carroll, Andrew Dimitrijevic, Arnold Starr, Leonid Litvak, Jan Larky, Nikolas H. Blevins Listening to or download the 1-minute sound file
February 14, 2007	Today @ UCI Press Release: Low-pitch treatment alleviates ringing sound of tinnitus UCI researchers find novel approach for hearing therapy
December 24, 2006	OC Register: Deafened in the digital age Experts at UCI worry about harm from MP3 players
December 19, 2006	Professor Lin Chen from the Biology Science School at USTC and Professor Fan-Gang Zeng (University of California, Irvine) have published their recent research in PNAS.   Luo, H., Ni, J.T., Li, Z.H., Li, X.O., Zhang, D.R., Zeng, FG, Chen, L. (2006). Opposite patterns of hemisphere dominance for early auditory processing of lexical tones and consonants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 103 (51): 19558–19563. (Click here to view the above article in Chinese) More work by Professor Lin: Mandrin is music to the ears, By Dao Caoren (China Daily)
December 12, 2006	Today@UCI: Mandarin language is music to the brain
September 5, 2006	Congratulations, Hongbin and Ahn!  Elizabeth Ahn Chen was born September 5, 2006, 7 pounds 4 ounces, 21.5 inches.
Posters from CIAP Conference August 4, 2005	Companding to improve cochlear implants’ speech processing in noise, Aparajita Bhattacharya and Fan-Gang Zeng Lows are the new highs: Improving speech intelligibility with unintelligible low-frequency sounds, Janice E. Chang, John Y. Bai, Martin Marsala, Helen E. Cullington, and Fan-Gang Zeng Linguistic and audiological factors in cochlear implant speech Perception, Michelle AuCoin McGuire, Jeff Carroll, Fan-Gang Zeng Electrode interactions in cochlear implants, Qing Tang and Fan-Gang Zeng Informational masking and spectral resolution in cochlear implant users, Rabia Farooquee, Ginger Stickney, Ruth Litovsky High rate carriers improve pitch discrimination between 250 and 1000 Hz, Jeff Carroll, Hongbin Chen and Fan-Gang Zeng
New Generation of Hearing Aids ABC, July 19, 2005	http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=edell&id=3265997
June 3, 2005	Bio 199 Undergraduate Student Research Program Update
2005 Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses July 30- August 4, 2005 Asilomar, California	http://www.hei.org/ciap2005/ciap.htm
Jan 1, 2005	Science Daily News: UCI Acousticians Improve Sound Quality of Cochlear Implants! January 1, 2005 — In a new study, 34 normal-hearing and 18 cochlear-implant subjects were tested on three speech-perception tasks known to be notoriously difficult for cochlear-implant users: speech recognition with a competing voice, speaker recognition and Mandarin-tone recognition. The UCI researchers tested the AM and FM from a number of frequency bands in speech sounds and tested the relative contributions to speech recognition in acoustic and electric hearing. Hearing scientist Fan-Gang Zeng, of University of California, Irvine, says, "The research we're conducting will have significant impact on quality of life for cochlear implant users." (In case you can not view it, please click "allow blocked content to be viewed" on the top of your Internet browser.)
New Publication:	Zeng, G.F., Kong, Y.Y, Michalewski, H.J., Starr, A. (2005). Perceptual consequences of disrupted auditory nerve activity. Journal of Neurophysiology 93:3050-3063. Oertel's comment: Oertel, D. Importance for timing in understanding speech. Focus on Perceptual consequences of disrupted auditory nerve activity. Journal of Neurophysiology 93:3044-3045.
Graduation Announcement:	Sheng Liu, Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering.  Sheng is now working with Sound ID in Palo Alto, CA. Tiffany Chua, M.S. in Electrical Engineering. Tiffany is now a doctoral student in UCI's Department of Biomedical Engineering. Martin Marsala, M.S. in Biomedical Engineering. Aaron Tea, M.S. in Biomedical Engineering. Aaron is now working with BrainLAB.
Today @ UCI: Hearing aid signal not clear? Then switch frequency to FM, finds UCI study	Zeng, F-.G., Nie, K.B., Stickney, G.S., Kong, Y-.Y., Vongphoe, M., Bhargave, A., Wei, C.G., Cao, K. (2005). Speech recognition with amplitude and frequency modulations. PNAS.
Announcement:	Nicotine receptors regulate synaptic transmission in auditory cortex
Graduation Announcements:	Kai-bao Nie, Post-doctoral training in Biomedical Engineering. Kai-bao is now a Research Scientist with Starkey Laboratories, Inc. Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Ying-Yee Kong, Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences. Ying-Yee is now a Post-doctoral researcher with MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, England. Jeremy Liu, M.S. in Biomedical Engineering.
Book:	Cochlear Implants: Auditory Prostheses and Electric Hearing Series : Springer Handbook of Auditory Research , Vol.  20 Zeng, Fan-Gang; Popper, Arthur N.; Fay, Richard R. (Eds.) 2004. Table of Contents
Review Article:	"Trends in Cochlear Implants," Trends in Amplification (2004) 8(1), 1-34.
Press Release, Purdue University	Merging Hearing Technologies Sounds Good to Researchers
ARO MidWinter Meeting 2003	View some of our most recent work presented at the ARO MidWinter Meeting 2003

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