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...

JASA article examines ambient noise around the USA

View a news article about the research here.   See below for the original JASA article. Daniel Mennitt, Kirk Sherrill, and Kurt Fristrup

Dr. Per V. Brüel, acoustics pioneer, passes away at the age of 100.  

The Acoustical Society of America honors Dr. Per V. Brüel, a leader in acoustics and acoustic instrumentation, who passed away on April 2 2015, just after his 100th birthday, March 6, 2015. For more than 75 years Dr. Brüel has been in the forefront of acoustic...

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.   From Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Killer Whales Learn to Communicate Like Dolphins Killer...