Stepp Lab at Boston University

We’re incredibly excited to re-introduce you to Dr. Dragicevic! Daria successfully defended her dissertation earlier today and has earned her PhD in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences. We’re the luckiest lab around to have worked with Daria over the last 5 years, and we know anything she goes on to do in the future will be just as amazing as her. Congratulations, Dr. Dragicevic! 💜✨

WOW! The biggest thank you from all of us to all of you 💖Your support is going to make a lasting impact on our work, on our students, on the communities we work with, on our staff, and on sensorimotor research as a whole. 301 of you donated, and hundreds more of you followed along and supported our campaign over the last 5 weeks, and we can’t thank you ALL enough.

And if you missed Giving Day, no worries — all portals are live through the 12th :)

Thank you, STEPP Lab community 💚✨💜

Happy Giving Day Eve! Tomorrow is the big day! Thank you SO much for all of your INCREDIBLE support so far. We can’t do what we do without all of you ❤️

If you’ve been waiting to donate, now’s the time! The link to support us is in our bio. Thank you from all of us! 🤸🏼

The STEPP Lab is a learning lab — we teach our students the skills they need to be successful in and out of a lab space. Your support on Giving Day helps us continue training the next generation of researchers 🔬Do it for them!

Giving Day is THIS Wednesday, but donation portals are open now! Link in our bio!

Do it for the STEPP Lab’s participants! Our work isn’t possible without the people who volunteer for our studies, and our goal is to produce results that benefit our patient populations down the line. We’re grateful to all of them for all of their time, dedication, and kindness. On Giving Day, do it for them! 🫂

We’re interrupting our Giving Day posts with a very exciting announcement: Please join us in person or on Zoom next Thursday (4/9) for Daria Dragicevic’s PhD dissertation defense! Congratulations on all of your hard work, Daria!! 💜🌟

Email [email protected] for the Zoom link

Set your reminders! Giving Day is in 1 WEEK! 🔔

Consider supporting the STEPP Lab to support our mission to help those affected by sensorimotor disorders. Your donations go back to paying our participants, supporting our students and the communities we study, and producing high-quality science in the face of grant terminations and restrictions on essential science.

Our donation portal is here, and it is live NOW for early donations!
https://give.bu.edu/schools/BostonUniversity/giving-day/pages/sargent-college/sre?a=12400855

Don’t just take our word for it — take it from Cruz! We didn’t even bribe him with treats for this testimonial 🐶🐾🦴

Giving Day is April 8th, but donation portals are live NOW! Link in our bio!

Tam is an undergraduate student at Wellesley who came to the lab for summer research and ended up working a whole extra year with us! Your support on Giving Day helps us provide opportunities to all students — even ones outside of BU! — giving them the tools to succeed in research and beyond. Do it for our students ❤️

Giving Day is April 8th, but our donation portal is open now! Link in bio!

Do it for research. Since 2025, funding for research has been slashed, and reviews of new grant applications have been slowed, delayed, and rejected. Your support on Giving Day ensures that necessary science can continue to happen, regardless of what happens to our grants. We owe it to the populations we study and the communities we support to continue our work however we can.

Giving Day is April 8th, but our donation portal is live NOW!

Do it for sensorimotor research! The STEPP Lab has been a hub for multidisciplinary research since opening in 2011, and your support on Giving Day will help us continue our mission for years to come. Our funding goes toward supporting the populations we study, maintaining high-quality equipment, and running (lots!) of participants.

Giving Day is April 8th, but early donations are open now! Link in our bio!

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**All images are pilot data from our lab members!**