{"id":226300,"date":"2025-02-28T10:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T15:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=226300"},"modified":"2025-09-09T11:18:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:18:44","slug":"in-memoriam-harvey-gilbert-former-professor-and-department-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2025\/02\/in-memoriam-harvey-gilbert-former-professor-and-department-head\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Harvey Gilbert, Former Professor and Department Head"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harvey Ronald Gilbert<\/span><\/a>, Professor Emeritus and former head of the Department of Communication Sciences, passed away on Feb. 8, 2025, at his home in State College, Pennsylvania.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Harvey Ronald Gilbert, Professor Emeritus and former head of the Department of Communication Sciences. (Contributed by the Gilbert family).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gilbert was a respected and dynamic scholar of speech-language pathology who served UConn for two decades. He joined the University in 1990 and led the Department of Communication Sciences until 2005, earning a reputation for leading with integrity and fairness and supporting junior faculty. He continued to teach and mentor students until his retirement in 2010.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After Gilbert\u2019s retirement, communication sciences split into the Department of Communication<\/a> and the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences<\/a>. His influence as an administrator, educator, and researcher continues to shape both today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Gilbert was known as a dynamic professor who helped students understand complex topics through humor. His research contributed to the understanding of <\/span>how infants develop the ability to vocalize and how various health factors such as smoking, reflux, miner’s black lung disease, Parkinson’s, stuttering, and Down Syndrome impact voice and speech production.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, he served on multiple committees including <\/span>chairing the one responsible for overseeing the academic accreditation of the more than 300 speech-language pathology and audiology programs in the country.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Gilbert is survived by his wife, Heather Dale Ricker-Gilbert, their children, and grandchildren.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gilbert mentored junior faculty and students during his two decades at UConn <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":226303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2618],"class_list":["post-226300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clas"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 04:42:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226300"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226306,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226300\/revisions\/226306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/226303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226300"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=226300"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=226300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}