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who produced the newsletter for many years.
Army to award Corps’ researchers for success in acoustics
Donald G. Albert and D. Keith Wilson, researchers with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), were chosen to receive
Department of the Army Research and Development awards.
Donald Albert, a research geo- physicist, will receive this award with three colleagues from the Army Research Laboratory located in Adelphi, MD. His award-winning pro- gram is “Development of Acoustic/ Seismic Components of Sympathetic Detonator.” He specializes in outdoor sound propagation in different envi-
ronments, i.e., summer, winter, jungle, forest, and urban.
D. Keith Wilson, a research physical scientist, specializes in outdoor sound propagation and near-earth meteorology. His award-winning program is “Utility of Quasi-Wavelets for Problems Involving Sound Propagation in the Atmosphere.”
In the awards notification letter, Thomas H. Killion, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Research and Technology), stated: “These scientists have distinguished themselves through their proven scientific and technical excellence. Their individual contributions promise to improve the Army’s capability, and to enhance our national defense and welfare. Their hard work and dedication brings great credit to themselves, their organizations, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Army.”
The awards will be presented at the 24th Army Science Conference in Orlando, FL, on 2 December.
Connecticut museum elects ASA member its new Chairman of the Board of Trustees
The Discovery Museum and Planetarium announced the election of Philip Rubin as its new Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Dr. Rubin is CEO, Vice President, and a Senior Scientist at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, CT. He is also a Professor Adjunct in the Department of Surgery, Otolarynology, at the Yale University School of Medicine and a Research Affiliate in the Department of Psychology at Yale University.
Dr. Rubin is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Psychological Society.
ASA members elected fellows of AAAS
The following ASA members were elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS):
Mark A. Clements, professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, for contributions to speech signal processing and robust speech recognition.

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