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􏰀 ASA Fellow Sheila Blumstein has been named to Fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for her contributions to our understanding of the relationships between language and the brain. She is the Albert D. Mead Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Brown University. She has used functional magnetic resonance imaging to better understand the brain.
􏰀 ASA awarded $1000 to Pen-Yuan Hsing and Wei-Kang Huang, Taipei Municipal Lishan Senior High School for their project on “Enhanced Cooling of Microelectronic Devices by Using the Thermoacoustic Effect” entered in the 2005 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Honorable Mention awards went to Courtney Anne Rafes, Northwest High School, Justin, Texas for a project on “An Ear to the Track: An Ultrasonic Train Wreck Avoidance System”; and to Jhe-Rong Wu, Taipei Municipal Chien-Kuo Senior High School, Tapei City, Taiwan for a project on “Phylogenetic Analysis of Crickets by Acoustic Behavior and Mitochondrial DNA Sequencing.” Each winner received a one-year ASA membership. Hsing and Huang also won expense-paid trips to attend the European Union Contest for Young Scientists in Russia.
In the Physics category in the same competition, the Intel Foundation presented a $1000 award to Emily Rae Drabek, Eastern High School, Pekin, Indiana for her proj- ect on “A Vibroacoustical Study Comparing the Out-of- Plane Motion of Violin Bridges Under Different Boundary Conditions Using Holographic Interferometry.”
􏰀 Patricia Kuhl, Professor of Speech, University of Washington, has been elected Chair-Elect of the AAAS section on Linguistics and Language Science. Pat is a past president of ASA, an ASA Fellow, and a recipient of the Silver Medal in Speech Communication.
Letter from the editor
Again, the editor did not receive any Letters to the Editor. Thus, the space will be taken by a Letter from the editor.
We would like to include brief letters from our readers in every issue. ASA members are apparently a notably happy group and have few complaints. However, we know that they are also a thinking group and have thoughts about acoustics or related issues. We encourage you to share them with other readers.
In this issue we have added something new: Good books I have read. Although JASA already includes full- fledged book reviews and Acoustics Today reports on new publications, one of our readers suggested that we encour- age mini-reviews of books, old or new, by readers. Joe Curtin has written such a commentary on an autobiogra- phy by a well-known ASA member, Gabi Weinreich.
If you like the idea, please send us your brief com- ments on old or new books in acoustics or related fields.
Best student paper awards (Minneapolis)
Animal Bioacoustics
Alison K. Stimpert, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology
Acoustical Oceanography
First: Michael G. Morley, Univ. of Victoria, Canada Second: Julie N. Oswald, Scripps Inst. of Oceanography, Univ. of California—San Diego
Architectural Acoustics
First: David T. Bradley, Univ. of Nebraska—Lincoln Second: Erica E. Bowden, Univ. of Nebraska—Lincoln
Engineering Acoustics
First: Miguel A. Horta, Pennsylvania State Univ. Second: Stephen B. Horowitz, Univ. of Florida
Musical Acoustics
First: Harald Jers, Cologne, Germany
Second: Jyri Pakarinen, Helsinki Univ. of Technology
Speech Communication
First: Tarun Pruthi, Univ. of Maryland Second: Byron D. Erath, Purdue Univ.
Structural Acoustics and Vibration
First: Noah H. Schiller, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. Second: Benjamin J. Doty, Jet Propulsion Lab.
Underwater Acoustics
First: Weichang Li, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.
Second: Jason D. Holmes, Boston Univ.
Young Presenter Awards in Noise
Courtney McGinnes, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. Steve Ryherd, Univ. of Nebraska—Lincoln
Young Presenter Award in Signal Processing in Acoustics
Siddhartha Sikdar, Univ. of Washington
EchoesEditor .....................ThomasRossing ASAEditor-in-Chief ....................AllanPierce Advisors ..............ElaineMoran,CharlesSchmid
Phone inquiries: 516-576-2360. Contributions, including Letters to the Editor, should be sent to Thomas Rossing, CCRMA, Dept. of Music, Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA 94305. E-mail: rossing@ccrma.stanford.edu.
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