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􏰀 Joseph Curtin and Emily Thompson were among the winners of MacArthur Foundation Fellowships. Curtin, a violin maker in Ann Arbor, was a workshop leader at the ASA workshop on Design and Construction of String Instruments at Vancouver. Thompson, who teaches history at the University of California, San Diego, won the 2002 ASA science writing award for her book The Soundscape of Modernity. [See page 55 of this issue.]
􏰀 James Berryman received the 2005 Maurice A. Biot medal for “outstanding contributions in poromechanics, granular materials, random composite media, tomography and inverse problems, and seismology” from the American Society of Civil Engineers. The award was presented in Norman, Oklahoma during the 3rd Biot Conference on Poromechanics. Jim is a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
􏰀 2005 was the last year of publication of ARLO (Acoustics Research Letters Online) as an independent journal. The replacement for ARLO will be a new section of JASA called JASA Express Letters, abbreviated JASA-EL. The new sec- tion will continue ARLO’s style of rapid publication with articles published online as soon as they’re accepted. The format of all JASA-EL articles will be the same as that presently used for ARLO (single column) which is easier to read on a computer screen. A mandatory $350 page charge will be charged for all papers accepted for publication in JASA-EL, which is what was previously charged for ARLO. Authors will be given the option to pay the color artwork charges for figures to appear in color in the printed edition. If color artwork charges are not paid, color figures will appear in color online and on the CD ROM, but in black and white in the printed edition.
From the Student Council
Andrew Ganse
The Student Council kicked off its Minneapolis meet- ing with its new president, Brian Monson, and welcomed in new council representatives as well. Be sure to check them all out along with the other student information on the ASA's student website: www.acosoc.org/student.
Top student issues discussed at the Council meeting included: planning for the grant proposal writing work- shop at the upcoming ASA meeting in Providence, feed- back from the student community on the topic of the possible new registration fees for student members of ASA, and voting for the next recipient of the ASA Student Mentor Award. Please stay tuned to the following issue of ECHOES for the announcement of the recipients of both the Student Mentor Award and the Fall meeting's Student Paper Awards (not yet available at the time of this publi- cation).
Just over 100 members, both students and non-stu- dents, attended the Student Reception in Minneapolis. The Student Reception offers a more structured opportu- nity for students to meet researchers and other students in their field while enjoying a buffet dinner and drinks. Afterwards most of those students joined the Student Outing to the nearby Rock Bottom Brewery to continue the socializing and networking.
The Student Council encourages students to consid- er starting a local student chapter of the ASA at their uni- versities. Local student chapters can serve as a common meeting ground for both students and researchers in var- ious departments at a university who share an interest in acoustics. The ASA provides funding for local student chapter events; please contact your Student Council rep- resentative for more information.
Student Council members can be recognized by the labels on their name badges at ASA meetings—look for us at the next meeting in Providence!
Andrew Ganse is a seismology graduate student at the University of Washington and the student representative for Underwater Acoustics.
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.
Murray Korman helps a student team with an experiment at the hands-on workshop session at the Minneapolis ASA meeting. (Photo by Tom Rossing.)
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