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Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University and a member of the ASA, was one of 28 scientists to receive the Office of Naval Research 2005 Young Investigator Award.
Young Investigator awards are designed “to attract to naval research outstanding new faculty members at institutions of higher education, sup- port their research and encourage their teaching and research careers.” The awards are for as much as $100,000 a year for three years, with the possibility of additional support for capital equip- ment or collaborative research with a Navy laboratory.
Benoit-Bird’s award includes pur- chase of two scientific echo sounders with acoustic frequencies that extend to smaller organisms and larger ani- mals—from zooplankton to sperm whales—that cannot be reached by other acoustic equipment.
Douglas L. Miller receives AIUM
Tymphany, Struck was Director of Engineering in the Consumer Licensing Division at Dolby Laboratories. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin and is the author of numerous technical papers, application notes and articles. He is a Member of the Acoustical Society of America, a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society.
ASA Awards Presented at the 2006 International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF)
The Acoustical Society of America (ASA) was proud to participate in judg- ing the 2006 International Science and Engineering Fair in Indianapolis, IN. This fair, begun in the 1950’s, is the world’s largest pre-college science fair. This year students from over 40 coun- tries participated. The focus is on research projects, although engineering inventions are also presented. The com- petition recently has been sponsored by Intel which provides three top prizes of $50,000 in scholarships. Many Grand Awards are made in 14 different cate- gories. In addition, over 70 professional organizations (including ASA) sent Special Awards Judges to evaluate the projects and confer awards from $5000 to $50. Altogether $4,000,000 was awarded to almost 25% of the 1500 stu- dent projects entered. This year ASA gave a first place award of $1000 and three Honorable Mention certificates. All four awardees receive free, one-year subscription to JASA on CD ROM.
The ASA first place award went to Caroline Elizabeth Pietsch, 17, Senior, Ossining High School, Ossining, NY for her project entitled, “A Novel Approach to the Automatic Recognition of Emotions in Natural Speech.” The proj- ect examined prosodic acoustic cues to identify naturally recorded speech from Holocaust survivors as belonging to one of four emotion categories, anger, happi- ness, sadness or neutral. Weka, a machine learning algorithm to train decision trees was used to select the best subset of prosodic measures from about 15 properties related to intensity, funda- mental frequency, and pause duration,
Douglas L. Miller
Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM). The award is named in honor of Joseph H. Holmes, MD, who was an important figure to both the field of diagnostic ultrasound and the AIUM.
Douglas Miller is a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Radiology at the University of Michigan. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and is currently a member of the Technical Committee on Biomedical Ultrasound/Bioresponse to Vibration.
ASA member named Vice President at Tymphany Corporation
Christopher J. Struck has been named Vice President of Engineering– North American Operations for Tymphany Corporation of Cupertino, California. In his new position, he is responsible for leading the engineering effort for the Tymphany Linear Array TransducerTM, managing the R&D team, and contributing to corporate technology strategy. Prior to joining
Kelly Benoit-Bird
Award
Douglas L. Miller was awarded the American Institute of Ultrasound Joseph H. Holmes Basic Science Pioneer Award on March 24, 2006. The citation reads: “Dr Miller has con- tributed to the field of ultrasound through his extensive research on bio- effects of ultrasound and participation in the safety assurance process for diag- nostic ultrasound.” The award was introduced by Professor Paul Carson of the University of Michigan, and pre- sented by Dr. Lennard Greenbaum, president of the American Institute of
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Christopher J. Struck