Congratulations to Alex Presacco and Aminah Sheikh who have received a Predoctoral Traineeship Award from the Center of Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing (C-CEBH). The award is for 12 months and it includes stipend, tuition assistance, and monies for travel to attend a meeting/ conference in the U.S.. The award is supported in part by a training grant from the National Institute of Deafness and Communicative Disorders of the National Institutes of Health.