Our featured speaker, Dr. Alexander Chern, will discuss his life story- including how he overcame the challenges of hearing loss to achieve academic success. In addition, he will describe how his hearing loss informed his choice to become an ear surgeon. He will finish with a description of his current research in music, hearing, and cognition. That night we will also award the fourth annual $5000 Albert B. Chen scholarship for a high school senior with hearing loss to Kiana Clercin. She is a student at the Brooklyn Institute of Liberal Arts and will attend John Jay College of Criminal Justice.