Alumna Named New Executive Director of the Callier Center
Angela Shoup BS’89, MS’92, PhD’94 has been selected as the new executive director of the Callier Center.
David Tolstyka, audiology graduate student
At age 15, David Tolstyka suffered from an autoimmune inner ear disease. Within three months, he went from normal hearing to profound bilateral deafness. “There’s an existential dread to losing a sense,” Tolstyka said. “It’s something that no one can prepare for.” Tolstyka underwent cochlear implant surgery in Michigan. When his family moved to Texas,…