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Scholar, novelist to address Hooding Ceremony May 9
May 6, 2013
Dr. Leonard L. “Chick” LaPointe is the
featured speaker for the Arnold School
Hooding Ceremony.
Dr. Leonard L. “Chick” LaPointe, a leading scholar in the field of neurological disorders of communication and cognition, will be the guest speaker for the 2013 Hooding Ceremony of the Arnold School of Public Health.
The 26th annual ceremony for master’s and doctoral candidates will be held at 9 a.m. Thursday, May 9, at the Koger Center for the Arts. The Norman J. Arnold Alumni Medal and the Gerry Sue Arnold Alumni Award will be presented, along with awards recognizing faculty and student achievements.
The title of LaPointe’s talk is “Advice for the Journey: What to Pack.”
LaPointe, the Francis Eppes Professor of Communication Science & Disorders at Florida State University in Tallahassee, also is on the faculty in the College of Medicine and in FSU’s Program in Neuroscience. He is the former chair of the Department of Speech and Hearing Science at Arizona State University.
An annual visiting professor in the School of Health Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, for 10 years, LaPointe has served as a visiting research professor at the University of Hong Kong and as an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He was a visiting faculty member at Mahidol University Medical School in Bangkok, Thailand.
The founding and current editor-in-chief of the Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology, LaPointe has authored or co-authored 10 books, 40 book chapters and more than 100 journal articles. He has presented more than 400 papers, lectures or invited workshops in the United States, the former Soviet Union, Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, China, Colombia, Argentina and Brazil.
LaPointe grew up in Channing, Mich., and earned his bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University and his master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Colorado. He has been named a Distinguished Alumnus from Michigan State University and the University of Colorado.
In addition to his scholarly publications, LaPointe is the author of the mystery Blood Ice, a novel published by AuthorHouse.com.
Visit http://www.authorhouse.com:80/BookStore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=14264 for complete details on the novel.
LaPointe’s Voices: Collected essays on language, laughter, and life is a collection of essays, comprising 17 years of writings that have delighted audiences of the Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology.
The University of South Carolina will award degrees to master’s degree candidates in public health at the 3 p.m. Friday, May 10, commencement ceremony at the Colonial Life Arena. The University will award degrees to doctoral candidates at a ceremony beginning at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at the Koger Center.
