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Sheila Blumstein named AAAS Fellow
Sheila Blumstein has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society. Blumstein is one of 376 individuals who were honored in 2005 for their distinguished efforts to advance science or its applica- tions. According to AAAS, Blumstein was selected for her “contributions to the fields of psycholinguistics and neurolin- guistics,” particularly for fundamental studies of how speech is understood by healthy people and people with aphasia, an impairment that hampers the ability to speak or comprehend language due to brain injury.
After earning her doctorate in linguistics from Harvard University, Blumstein went to Brown University in 1970. She has gone on to teach 15 courses, win 20 National Institutes of Health research awards, direct 23 doctoral dissertations and publish more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. She was elected a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of American in 1982.
Dr. Blumstein joined Brown University in 1970 after earning her doctorate in linguistics from Harvard University. She has served as dean of the College, interim provost and interim president. In 2001, after she led Brown for 17 months before President Ruth J. Simmons began her duties, the fac- ulty presented Blumstein with the Susan Colver Rosenberger Medal, the highest honor the faculty can bestow. The AAAS award is one of nine honorary fellowships Blumstein has earned through the course of her career.
Noral D. Stewart honored by American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
Noral D. Stewart,
president and principal
consultant of Stewart
Acoustical Consultants,
Raleigh, NC, has been
honored with the 2005
Wallace Waterfall Award
by ASTM International
Committee E33 on
Environmental Acoustics.
The committee recog-
nized Stewart “for his dis-
tinguished contributions
to the development,
preparation and accept-
ance of standards in acoustics.” ASTM Committee E33 on Environmental Acoustics is one of 138 technical standards writing committees. ASTM International is one of the world's largest management systems for the development of voluntary standards for materials, products systems and services.
Stewart is a consultant in acoustics and noise control, building systems noise, environmental and community noise evaluation and control and noise control in workplaces. He is a graduate of North Carolina State University with a bache- lors degree in mechanical engineering. He also earned his master's and doctorate degrees in mechanical engineer-
Noral D. Stewart
and Vibration Research for eleven years. In 1988 Koopmann joined the mechanical engineering faculty at Penn State. In 1991, he became the founding director of Penn State's Center for Acoustics and Vibration—a center that has grown to encompass eight university departments and units with 40 affiliated faculty and over 100 graduate students.
Throughout his career, Koopmann has received numerous university and national awards and honors. In 2001 Koopmann was recognized with the Per Bruel Gold Medal from ASME International for his research accom- plishments in noise control and acoustics. In 1998 he was awarded the University's special academic title of distin- guished professor of mechanical engineering and was the recipient of the Penn State Engineering Society's Premier Research Award in 1996. His national honors include the Deutscher Akademischer Ausauschdienst Scholarship in 1978 and the US Naval Research Laboratory's Research Publication Award (1973) and Outstanding Achievement Award (1965).
Sean F. Wu
Sean Wu honored by Wayne State University
Sean Wu has been named Distinguished Professor by Wayne State University in 2005, one of seven members of the faculty so honored. The Distinguished Professor appointment denotes the highest of academic achievements, and each of the individuals chosen is recognized as an aca- demic leader in his or her chosen field.
The university pro- vides a stipend of $5,000 for each faculty member
holding the rank of Distinguished Professor. This stipend recognizes the significant scholarly contributions of Distinguished Professors and attempts to assist them in that scholarship by providing special university funding. The stipend can be used for any purpose within the existing uni- versity regulations.
Sean Wu joined Wayne State University in 1988 and was appointed as the Charles DeVlieg Professor of Mechanical Engineering in 2002. He is a of Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and editor for the Journal of Computational Acoustics. Professor Wu holds eight U.S. patents which led to the creation of a new company, SenSound, LLC, with Wu as its Chief Technical Officer. He and his colleagues have won 32 grants and contracts totaling more than $3 million dollars from the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, General Motors, Ford Motor Company and other organizations. He has published over 40 refereed journal articles.
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