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Walter G. Mayer
Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057
medical ultrasonics and bioacoustics, particularly studies relating to the role played by bubbles and cavitation microstreaming in diagnostic and high-intensity therapeutic ultrasound, endodontic scaling, and extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy.
Ronald Roy is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA). He has served as Chair of the ASA Technical Committee on Biomedical Ultrasound/Bioresponse to Vibration (1996-99), as Associate Editor for JASA (2000-01), and as Editor of Acoustics Research Letters Online (ARLO) (2001- 03).
Tony Jones (l) and Kirill Horoshenkov (r) (Photo:
Bradford University Professor hon-
Institute of Acoustics)
ored by the Institute of Acoustics
Professor Kirill Horoshenkov, an acoustics researcher at the University of Bradford, has been awarded the Institute of Acoustics’ 2006 Tyndall Medal. He received his award from Dr. Tony Jones, President of the Institute of Acoustics, at the Institute’s Spring Conference at Southampton University on 4 April 2006.
The Tyndall Medal is awarded bi- annually to a citizen of the UK, preferably under the age of 40, for achievement and services in the field of acoustics.
In selecting Professor Horoshenkov for this award, the Institute cited his achievements and proven record in developing efficient and novel solutions to noise problems and general sound propagation research. Professor Horoshenkov is a Fellow of the Institute
of Acoustics, a member of the Acoustical Society of America, and author of many academic publications. He has studied, among other things, the prediction, measurement and control of noise from road and rail traffic, propagation of sound in dry and partially saturated porous materials and in waveguides. He has established an automated physical acoustic modeling facility at Bradford which has been used to investigate the effect of trackside noise barriers on the sound propagation from high-speed trains. Following receipt of his medal, Professor Horoshenkov gave a lecture on the characterization of acoustic porous materials.
Accepting his medal, Professor Horoshenkov said, "I am very grateful to the Institute for nominating me for such a prestigious award. I am also grateful to all my colleagues for their support that I’ve always enjoyed since my coming to the UK in 1992. In par- ticular, I would like to thank Professor Simon Chandler-Wilde, Professor David Hothesall and Professor Keith Attenborough who led me through my PhD study at Bradford in the early 1990s. Their support has helped me to develop fundamental understanding of the phenomenon of sound propagation in porous media and inspired a series of related research.”
John Tyndall (1820-1893) preceded Rayleigh as the Professor Natural Philosophy at the Royal Institute. He investigated the acoustic properties of the atmosphere and though a distin- guished experimental physicist, he is remembered primarily as one of the world’s most brilliant scientific lecturers.
Auditorium acoustics expert receives the Rayleigh Medal from the Institute of Acoustics
An internationally recognized expert in Auditorium Acoustics is this year’s winner of the Rayleigh Medal, the Institute of Acoustics’ premier award.
Dr. Michael Francis Evan Barron, a senior lecturer at the University of
Ronald Roy
Ronald Roy named George Eastman Professor of Oxford University
Ronald Roy has been named the 65th George Eastman Professor of Oxford University. The George Eastman Visiting Professorship is a distinguished Chair appointed annually to a citizen of the United States who is deemed to be of great eminence in teaching or research in any field of study at the University of Oxford. Professor Roy will hold the Eastman Chair during the academic year 2006-2007.
The award stipulates that the awardee will deliver 24 lectures during the year he holds the position. The award is through Oxford's Balliol College and is administered by the Rhodes Trust. Prior Eastman Professors include Deans, Distinguished Faculty Chairholders, a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and 12 Nobel Prize win- ners. Professor Roy will be the first engi- neer to hold this post in the 75-year his- tory of this prestigious award.
Ronald Roy is Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at Boston University. He received the Ph.D. degree from Yale University, an M.S. from the University of Mississippi, and a B.S. from the University of Maine at Orono. Dr. Roy's main area of research is physical acoustics and he is active in the fields of
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