Both Wei and Cassandra, first year PhD students in COSI, were notified on Friday that they received a CAS GSSCE Award from the Office of the Dean in the amount of $1000 each to support their research. The COSI faculty are extremely proud of these students for not only submitting their first grant application during the first semester (amazing accomplishment!) but also receiving funding (pretty much unheard of!). I was shocked to find out that two awards were given to two students in the same program. They were awarded these funds to continue work supporting communication partners with TBI (Wei) and to develop multi-model educational resources about communication disorders for Spanish speakers in the US (Cassandra).