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Notes from a Year as a Congressional Science Fellow
Rachel Carr 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Building 26-570, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USAr ecarr@mit.edu By the time this issue of Acoustics Today is printed, the composition of the United States Congress, plus at least one other branch of the federal government, will...
LEO LEROY BERANEK IN MEMORIUM September 15, 1914 – October 10, 2016
Learn about the life and works of Leo Beranek in a special issue of Acoustics Today. Leo Beranek PDF
Louis K. Sutherland, Fellow and Silver Award recipient of ASA passed away on Feb. 23, 2016.
Louis K. Sutherland, a 62 year member of ASA and a Fellow and Silver Award recipient of ASA passed away on Feb. 23, 2016. Lou did extensive work in noise abatement and on developing standards for classroom acoustics and noise levels where he and his associates aimed...
Dr. Laura Kloepper awarded Office of Naval Research Young Investigator award.
Dr. Laura Kloepper, assistant professor of biology, Saint Mary's College - Notre Dame, and the first Acoustics Today intern was awarded the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator award. Laura is one of 47 young investigators who were honored for exceptionally...
ASA Members in the News
Soundproofing for New York noise ...
Norman C. Pickering, Who Refined the Record Player, Dies at 99 (read more…)
Norman C. Pickering, an engineer, inventor and musician whose pursuit of audio clarity and beauty helped make phonograph records and musical instruments sound better, died on Nov. 18 at his home in East Hampton, N.Y. He was 99. The New York Times has a complete...
James L. Flanagan
James L. Flanagan, a former ASA President, ASA Gold Medal awardee, and recipient of the National Medal of Science, died Aug. 25, 2015 in Warren, NJ, at the age of 89. For more than half a century Jim Flanagan has conducted and led research in the area of speech. His...
International Student Challenge Problem in Acoustic Signal Processing – Brian G. Ferguson and R. Lee Culver
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JASA article examines ambient noise around the USA
A recent article in the Journal of the Acoustic Society of America has been widely cited in the media. The article ASA member Kurt Fristrup and colleagues develops a geospatial model that predicts ambient sound pressure levels using geospatial features such as topography, climate, hydrology, and anthropogenic activities.
Dr. Per V. Brüel, acoustics pioneer, passes away at the age of 100.
The Acoustical Society of America takes pleasure in honoring Dr. Per V. Brüel, a leader in acoustics and acoustic instrumentation, on his 100th birthday, March 6, 2015.
ASA Fellow William (Bill) Murphy receives Outstanding Hearing Conservationist Award
ASA Fellow William (Bill) Murphy, Captain in the U.S. Public Health Service, is the 2015 recipient of the Outstanding Hearing Conservationist Award from the National Hearing Conservation Association. This award recognizes Bill’s outstanding contributions to research...
Inventors of Cochlear Implant Win National Engineering Prize
ASA members Blake Wilson and Graeme M Clark, along with their colleagues Erwin Hochmair, Ingeborg J. Hochmair-Desoyer, and Michael M. Merzenich, are the recipient of the 2015 Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize from the National Academy of Engineering. This highly...
JASA research article makes a splash
A recent publication in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) caught the attention of several major news outlets this past Tuesday. Killer Whales Learn to Communicate Like Dolphins. Killer whales living with bottlenose dolphins demonstrate cross-species vocal learning
Physical Acoustics Summer School
PASS at the Summit: Report of the 2014 Physical Acoustics Summer School Joseph R. Gladden and George Atkins National Center for Physical Acoustics, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS Kent L. Gee and Tracianne B. Neilsen Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham...
ASA fellow Timothy G. Leighton – Radar System TWIPR
ASA fellow Timothy G. Leighton has been awarded Fellowship of the Royal Society, the national academy of sciences for the UK and the Commonwealth.
International Student Challenge
Background. A truck with a 4-stroke diesel engine travels along a straight road with constant speed. Near the road is a microphone that senses the radiated acoustic noise from the truck during its passage past the microphone. The output of the microphone is sampled at...
Finding Malaysian Flight 370
Jim Miller, ASA outgoing President, demonstrates the process of “pinging” used by those searching for Malaysian Flight 370
Sounds of the Sea
from PRI's Environmental News Magazine Sounds of the Sea / Jennifer Jerrett (stream / mp3) The ocean is a noisy place and human activity is making it worse. Jennifer Jerrett reports that biologists studying the role sound plays in the sea are making surprising...
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