Dr. Calandruccio joined the Department of Allied Health Sciences in the Fall of 2012. Her research foci include speech perception for normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners and native and non-native English speech perception in noise. Dr. Calandruccio completed her postdoctoral training at Northwestern University where she split her time between the Department of Linguistics and the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. More recently, she spent three years as a faculty member at Queens College of the City University of New York in the Department of Linguistics and Communication Disorders working with an extremely diverse student body and linguistically diverse research population. A goal of her research is to improve communication for listeners with hearing loss regardless of their native language.