Congratulations to 3rd-year Au.D. student, Krysta Gasser Rutledge, who was awarded an AAAF Student Investigator Research Grant for the 2015-16 academic year. The title of her grant is “Hearing Loss in a Novel Polygenic Mouse Model of Type II Diabetes Mellitus.” Her mentor is Michael Ann Gratton, Ph.D., CCC-A, Professor & Director of Research, Department of Otolaryngology – Head, Neck Surgery at Saint Louis University School of Medicine.