Marywood University CSD undergraduate and graduate students conduct research that contributes to their coursework as well as to the Speech-Language Pathology profession. Some recent examples include:
"A Meta-Analysis of Single-Subject Treatment Studies for Anomia"
- Student: Danielle Boucher
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Bruce Wisenburn
- Presentation Venue: Pennsylvania Speech-Language-Hearing Association, April 2011; Marywood University Research Forum
"Theory of Mind Reasoning in People with Aphasia: The role of Language and Executive Functions"
- Student: Elizabeth Schneider
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Vijayachandra Ramachandra
- Presentation Venue: Behavior 2011 at Indiana University, Bloomington; Academy of Aphasia 2011, Montreal, Canada; Marywood University Research Forum 2011
"Systemizing, Empathizing, and Theory-of-Mind in Healthy Normal Adults"
- Students: Christina Salvo, Danielle Gerrato, Amanda Petronio, Jenna Beim, Bridget Mileski
- Faculy Advisor: Dr. Vijayachandra Ramanchandra
- Presentation Venue: National Conference on Undergraduate Research 2011, Ithaca College NY; Marywood Research Forum 2011

"The Relationship between Autism Quotient and Theory of Mind in Healthy Normal Adults."
- Students: Emily Degnitz, Abigail Johnson, Bethany Savacool
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Vijayachandra Ramachandra
- Presentation Venue: Marywood University Research Forum 2010.

"The Influence of Musical Training on the Phonological Loop and the Central Executive"
- Students: Colleen Meighan, Jillian Gradzki
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Vijayachandra Ramachandra
- Presentation Venues: Marywood University Research Forum 2010, The 2010 Pennsylvania Speech Language and Hearing Convention, The Penn State 11th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Seattle, Washington.

"Semantic vs. Non-Semantic Whole Word Reading Therapy for Pure Alexia: A Case Study"
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Vijayachandra Ramachandra
- Presentation Venues:Science of Aphasia, Potsdam, Germany Marywood University Research Forum 2010
"A Meta-Analysis of Therapies for Agrammatism Due to Aphasia."
- Students: Marilee Sobrinski, Caitlin Donahue
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Bruce Wisenburn
- Presentation Venue: Marywood University Research Forum 2010.

"The Effects of Musical Training on Phonological and Functional Working Memory"
- Students: Bethanie LeCureux and Moira Pope
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Vijay Ramachandra
- Presentation Venue: Marywood University Research Forum 2009.
"Age-Related Changes in Processing Vocal Emotions"
- Students: Nina DePalma
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Vijay Ramachandra
- Presentation Venues: Marywood University Research Forum 2009.

"Novel Word Learning in People with Aphasia: The Role of Judgements-of-Learning and Phonological Memory"
- Students: Jillian Jones, Kimberly Flanagan, Morgan Reilly, Nicholas Bollinger
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Vijay Ramachandra
- Presentation Venues: Marywood University Research Forum 2009, The 47th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia (Boston 2009)

"Fast Mapping in Healthy Young Adults: The Effects of Immediate vs. Delayed Judgments-of-Learning"
- Students: Marissa Ruda and Bryna Rickenbach
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Vijay Ramachandra
- Presentation Venues: Marywood University Research Forum 2009.

"Age-Related Changes in Behavioral and Physiological Responses to Vocal Emotions"
- Students: Keith Albright, Rebecca Masko, Jason Berry, Elaina Rickards
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Vijay Ramachandra
- Presentation Venues: Marywood University Research Forum 2009.

"Fast Mapping in Adults: The Influence of Gender & Metamemory"
- Students: Bethanie LeCureux, Moira Pope, Bryna Rickenbach, and Marissa Ruda,
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Vijay Ramachandra
- Presentation Venues:
- Marywood University Research Forum, 2008
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Conference, Chicago, 2008
- Pennsylvania Speech-Language-Hearing Association Conference, 2009
"Neural Basis of Auditory Emotions"
- Student: Nina DePalma, and Marywood CSD alumna Sara Lisiewski Conrad '08
- Faculty Advisor: Dr. Vijay Ramachandra
- Presentation Venue:
- European Societies of Neuropsychology, Edinburgh, Scotlan, Marywood Undergraduate Research Forum 2008.
- Research focus: The study of mirror neurons in the brain, measuring heart rate and skin conductance, among 25 volunteer undergraduate students as they listened to and thought about various vocal emotions.